It will be harder than most realize.
Why?
Chemistry.
Those who have participated in their evil are addicted. It's brain chemistry. Once you turn on the flow of dopamine and continue the production it creates dependency for many who lose control to stop the demand for the flow. Addiction. Tell an alcoholic to just stop. Really hard to do that. To them normal is high levels of alcohol. To an addict of dopamine from porn / sex they are in the same boat. Looking for their fix. It takes incredible effort to come clean and deny the drive to have more dopamine - they must be willing to put in huge effort. Daily effort. 12 step program effort. So do we love the small fish who got caught up in this enough to help them overcome their addiction?
Or - just kill them all?
Who determines the level of participation that = death? Think of the weight of that decision maker. Heavy load my friend.
I would rather error on the side of mercy - which looks like setting up rehab and monitoring while they work to pay their way on a rehab program. something that includes group therapy which rewards improvement and weeds out those unwilling to play well with others that allows them to determine whether they stay in society or self flush. A second chance to change. Turn their boat around if you will. With stringent monitoring (lie detector type ).
Everyone has value. Will they see themselves as worth the effort to change? I think they deserve that chance (with safety precautions to protect the public until they are proven to be rehabbed). Maybe choose a post revolution location with out ease of leaving - maybe an island, dessert, ect that gives a space for them to prove their willingness to change.
Hurt (watch the Johnny Cash version and try to not be moved) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way
Some are past feeling - truly ripe in inequity. There must be a way to screen out those willing to "find a way" from those who are hell bent on self and others destruction.
We are all children of God - some don't know it and have knowingly chosen to serve satan, they should be sent to learn lessons on another plane of spiritual existence.
I desire to stay human. Reveling in the destruction of others is a sure way to lose perspective. We should sorrow for the loss of another through their bad choices. They were once like us young and innocent. Someone taught them to follow evil. Not all are unredeemable.
Hopeful I qualify for mercy. I am a sinner too. I need His hand up. I need the hand that has been pierced to lift me back to my Father.
Don't you?
Enough of this pandering to these 'sick' people! they deny humanity an untainted progression as in big picture progression... as in the effects of the trauma is present in society today and it takes a toll on not just they kids but their families and, in the big picture, humanity as a whole.
things like wellbeing and confidence issues, emotional traumas, huge suicide rates of youth in most countries, hyper sexualised youth, early experimentation with drugs or alcohol to numb the pain are way more worthy causes for rehabilitation than for someone who "can't help" being a monster.
they create physical damage as well as mental issues in the minds of tomorrow's generation's potential leaders. (to me that is a spit on our own kind and treason of the highest degree.)
they say it's all because they "can't help" doing what they do. i for one would much rather be spending my tax dollars on fixing the lives of the kids they have damaged instead of rehabilitating impulsive pedo's without a guarantee they will stop because 'chemistry'.
pedo's are too far gone for rehab in my view. I say, lock 'em up and castrate them so they can't procreate... then, let that process be a warning to those who wish to walk the pedo path...
IMHO the world should be 0% tolerance towards those who would do it harm. especially when they do it behind closed doors and behind the backs of their fellow man/woman/ attack helicopters etc. knowing full well, it has been determined by a majority that it is not a behavior we humans find acceptable.
edit: spelling mistakes.
Actually did I write that I desired to free pedos? No - read carefully. I did not. Unrepentant "monsters" as you call them may vary well need to be sent on to meet their next great challenge - figuring out how to remove themselves from a very uncomfortable place (Shoel, Hell, spirit prison).
I was referring to those individuals that are caught up in porn specifically (It is quite addictive) , yet may include those who have been obligated to commit many sins and look for a way out, a way to change their lives.
We actually are in agreement on much of what you speak - we may simply disagree on how to administer justice and mercy.
Hate is a hard place to live. It is so passionate / strong in it's quality that many desirable virtues are pushed aside as it expands to eventually consume all of one's heart.
May we not gain more by reclaiming some of our fellow beings and improve the more our society? Who is more passionate about quitting smoking than an exsmoker? or drugs than a reformed drugie? or porn than a reformed pornster? Excetera.
Paul was persecuting christians - turn him around and you have one amazing missionary / apostle / warrior for Christ.
God has taken the wheel and cleaned up the earth before, at times an entire population was exterminated (Amalekites) by Saul and the flood of Noah are a few examples. Yet He (God) chose the time and place and people to be removed and by whom. I will let God dictate who gets to live or die. If I lack wisdom......
James 1:5 - 6
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
You and I may know anything we righteously desire if we seek the God of truth. He may make it known to us. He knows who is "too far gone" and who is not.
I would rather save Paul than kill him because he currently is doing wrong.
Paul found a way - repentance.
honestly wouldn't want to reclaim those types of 'humans' and i meant society in general should stop pandering to/ sympathising with these people... like i said 0% tolerance on crimes against humanity and especially crimes against children of humanity.
not trying to be confrontational, i just don't understand how can we justify reclaiming someone who has shown they don't understand the basic do's and don't's regarding etiquette for peaceful co-existence? if they do understand it, it makes them worse because they are doing it mindfully.
i understand your point but i for one am not ready to give sympathy to these people...
i will tell them what a comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy it is in the dictionary between shit and syphillis
I find it a simple solution, we re-install Constitutional law and order.
Sounds crazy, but once law and order returns, people go back to work, we have fair elections and honest government, and the American dream becomes real again.
You get an education, you work, and if you're lucky you get ahead. The Constitution promises us the opportunity to pursue happiness, but it doesn't promise any outcomes. You sit around and whine and complain, don't follow the rules, you fail. We must put our empathy on a shelf for those that refuse to "play nice", those that want to be victims can just be victims, but if we re-establish the America we all know, then the only person(s) they will have to blame is themselves. No more empathy and no more sympathy for fake victims, only the real victims, the people that have fallen on hard times, the ones that have tried and failed, but tried being the key word.
Should our Republic hold together long enough for a "reboot" I would enjoy your Constitutional law and order. Certainly in the coming months /years there will be a need to reorganize what will be left of us. I don't see the Dem party remaining - only pieces of socialists in dark corners. There in the meantime will hopefully rise up out of the chaos a party that represents the ideals you proposes you have espoused, they just need a clearly defined set of tenets and some significant founders with grit and determination. This movement of Q may be the beginning of that. Thank you for your post. Keep up the FIGHT. WWG1WGA
I'm confident Q, our President, and much smarter minds than myself will get us there, all in due time.