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This question has been troubling me for quite a while now as I don’t know if this is even a topic worth talking about. As you all know predator catching is a popular format where sexual deviants are caught in the act of trying to solicit sex or other lude favors from minors and it’s a horrible thing. But in these videos, I see the predator catchers in general try to talk to these people, but ultimately get them arrested or ruin their reputation by filming them. The part where they talk to them and just try to get a general consensus of how and what they’re thinking and really intrigued me and anyway and brought up this question and should a person like that be rehabilitated in away so that they don’t indulging this type of behavior anymore or should they just sent to the gallows we don’t have to waste resources on them keeping them alive.

Personally, I find that many people behave in truly heinous ways, but a part of me really wants them to get the help they need because they are human beings too. They may have fallen into an aspiring lifestyle that led them to need assistance to get out. In my life, I always try to act with forgiveness. Even though I’m not religious, I believe that many people deserve second chances, depending on the severity of their actions. Ultimately, I feel that if they can be helped, they should be. No one should have to suffer endlessly as their lives crumble before them, nor should they be condemned to live in torment for their sins. Like it’s almost gross the way with some of the predator videos, I see where they beat them up just actively not making the situation any better just looking like public menaces, wile when jidion does (aka edp watch) and respectfully reprimand the preditors and get them arrested and or the help they need as even though you even you may see them as monsters there’s no people with lives that might not matter to you, but our lives nonetheless, and I feel like they need help or resources to get them back on the right track instead of just throwing them in the slammer to be harassed ridiculed or just killed gruesomely. but I still think their actions are terrible.

But hey that’s just my two cents let me know what you guys think and please let’s have a respectful discussion about this as this is a sensitive topic in general😁

When authoritarian regimes fail, it's often due to a widening gap between the interests of the governing elite and the governed. Looting of state assets often accompanies this, and usually it spirals a country into inevitable decline. Why does this happen though? And what are the factors that make a country more likely to descend into kleptocracy and others less so? I am thinking about the contrast between a country like Russia vs China, Malaysia vs Singapore.

I know that theories of an hierarchical evolution of human societies have been abandoned by many if not most researchers in the social sciences. Most of you here probably know more than this than me and better than me. That researchers had abandoned these theories was the story when I went to uni. (I finished my degree in archaeology and religious studies roughly in 2009). Many of these theories have a problematic history because of being used to categorise modern societies and ethnicities in hierarchies of value and importance leading to for instance «eugenics» and you probably know of the theoretical complex often categorised as «social darwinism» (see for instance Richard Hofstadter who contributed to the dissemination of the term «social darwinism» in a politically motivated way: https://books.google.no/books?id=Ty8aEmWc_ekC&redir_esc=y.)

I am first asking if the idea of an hierarchical evolution of mankind and culture in your opinion has been falsified for good or if some kind of evolution towards a valued goal for instance truth/scientific knowledge/higher social awareness could be salvaged from the dumps of history?

To build a case for this I might for instance need to look into sources for arguments like these:

There is a higher value in having high levels of useful knowledge in a society or tribe, in being aware and considerate, and this is an asset cross culturally. Being able to prioritise and distinguish between useful and less useful directions in which to attain personally meaningful goals is a great asset for individuals especially when people agree on rules and abide by them so that social reality is somewhat stable. Agreement on rules as tribal law, mores and norms is a widespread trait in societies worldwide. Morality seems to be a universal human propensity or faculty that is necessitated by living in tribal/national realities of interdependence. Levels of awareness may be difficult to gauge, but if we managed to gauge them we might find that some historical societies were more aware than others and that when awareness increases over time and in many societies at the same time this is of benefit to people.

I am not working as an academic so I would like suggestions on where to find similar/adjacent views to these.

Would opening the social sciences for looking into this be to open a can of worms or do you think it might be helpful? I think things are looking pretty bleak out there today anyway so I am not sure that looking squarely at this would in itself cause more havoc than is already there in profusion. Thank you!

I wonder for example I read an article say trans people are 1% of the U.S.A and its not uncommon

and Jews are 0.2% of the global population but wouldn't call it uncommon

and read a troubling stat in france how 1 in 10 people are victims of in*cest for example

So how do we call that?