I'll say, though, that the problem is with the general population; try being an American visiting a local fish-and-chips establishment in England—man, your lower classes are a rough and inscrutable bunch!
I'm no "Lord of the Manor"; but, I believe my speech to be well annunciated and clear. (Just not an American accent). Even domestically, some of us have problems understanding people from some of the various regions.
A southerner might have difficulty understanding some of the people from Liverpool or Newcastle.
Calling it a slippery slope is a bit much. That's implying one barely related thing will cause another to happen without much of a logical reason in between.
If a device is a available to be sold that destigmatises the act. If you destigmatise the act, even a little, some people will be encouraged to act on it.
Having them use a robot is not going to kill their urges any more than using a sex toy/doll decreases the urge to have sex with a real woman/man. You ask any basement dweller if he'd rather be with a real woman. I bet 99% of them would.
Obviously, real world statistics would help, and we can't know the net impact with certainty; but I would suspect the % satiated with a robot would be almost 0 (just like it is for any current sex toy, or your right hand). The percent that the existence of such devices will increase their urge to act will be > 0%.
I don't know how big the increase would be. Any increase is a bad thing.
There is a massive difference between homosexuality and pedophilia.
One is the consensual relationship between two adults. The other is a non-consensual relationship between one person and a victim. Someone who has pedophilic fantasies may not be a bad person if it is something they cannot help. Someone who acts on those fantasies very much is doing a bad thing that deserves to be demonized.
Absolutely this! My GF is too old to have kids, and I'm too old to raise kids. We still have a great relationship.
How do you function as a couple without someone bursting into your room saying their tummy hurts every time you try to be intimate? Or without being woken 20 times a night and getting cranky and annoyed with each other.
A rubber doll is not a person. It doesn't have feelings, or pain, or sex organs. It's a piles of plastic. This is like banning soda bottles because someone probably put their dick in one.
I have a brother in law who recently got caught in a sting by FBI agents posing as a mother and her 12 year old daughter online.
My brother in law is 50 and only recently started acting out on this sickness he claims to have had his entire life. What made him start seeking out underage sex after repressing it for 5 decades? I don't know. I haven't spoken to him in person since the arrest, and with any luck, will never speak to him again.
Something must have sparked his interest though.
I imagine there are other people like him. Holding back their immoral desires to prey on children. What impact would a child-robot have on them. For those like my brother in law, who are married, they won't possess their own, they wouldn't risk being caught. But hearing about them, and knowing they exist might excite them and push them over the edge.
For others who are single, they might buy a robot to satisfy their urge but would it be enough? Would a plastic soda bottle satisfy you and not make you want a real woman? Chances are no. You get an emotionless robot or plastic soda bottle, without the warmth or softness of flesh- and it would just make you want more.
I strongly suspect these robots would push over the edge those people suppressing their urges into actually acting. Even if they never own a robot themselves.
Being a pedophile is not illegal (in sane countries, anyway). Like being gay, it's just the way you are. Masturbating with the aid of a robot is not illegal. Masturbating with the aid of a robot that looks like a child should likewise not be illegal.
I'd much rather a pedo fucked a robot that looked like a kid rather than an actual kid.
Unless doing so either:
a) increased the urges and made them want the real thing more.
or
b) the existence of such robots "normalized" the desire to be a predator of children. And people who had the desire and fought it because they saw it as unnatural now acted upon the instincts and desires they had suppressed.
Just wait...people who are attracted to "sex robots" will be classified as yet another sexual orientation and will insist on marrying them, parading them around in public, and demand that the robot maintenance be included in their health benefits.
More likely than that, another group of people will actively persecute them for being different and having different interests than them.
The same people that bash homosexuality, transgenderism, and other cultures will have a new group of people to hate and discriminate against.
I'd certainly rather have a person having sex with a robot than a child.
I think the GATEWAY mentality of drugs and sex has been shown to be false. It isn't like a child sex robot is going to convert a person with no interest in children into a pedophile.
It isn't like shooting up one marijuana is going to make you drink heroin.
Most men have a right hand; yet, given the choice, most would rather be with a real woman. Most women have a small device that eats batteries, yet most women would rather be with a real man.
I don't know what impact a robot child would have on a paedophile, but there is a strong chance it won't lessen his desires. It may have no impact, or it may have a positive feedback on the desires. What it will do is "normalize" that behavior, and may encourage some people to act out on fantasies.
Grover Cleveland, the only POTUS to serve 2 non-consecutive terms, was 49, and already President, when he married 21 year old Frances Folsom and was 54 when their 1st child was born and 66 for their fifth.
I'm in my late 30s and feel like I'm too old to have any more kids. There's no way I want to be having kids now and not getting them out of the house until I'm probably in my 60's.
Why would I date a wrinkly, out-of-shape, pre-menopausal senior citizen shut-in with no modern interests, and that goes on and on about her grown-up children and how big her ex-boyfriend's cock was?
If you ever been on a stand up roller coaster, are male, and have had the lower restraint (bicycle seat) set too high, you would fear turbulence on a stand up plane.
I recall going around a stand up roller coaster screaming.
It had nothing to do with the excitement of the ride- fortunately, three children prove it didn't do any permanent damage.
Honestly, I go by price because I assume all airlines are going to be just as bad as each other. If there were a sort by legroom option, I'd probably at least look at it. If it cost a little more for more room, I'd take it. The problem is, price is all we have to go on.
Too many hours and you don't produce quality of work. Studies have shown extra vacation and time away from the office INCREASE productivity.
Even if the above were not true. "Getting ahead" is not worth missing out on time with friends, family, and..."me time". Happiness will always trump "getting ahead".
You should check your sources. The first said there are several accounts as to how he set up the scale and lists that one above as one of them.
We don't even know for sure HOW or WHY he set up his measurement system- and it hasn't even remained the same over time. What is 40F today is not the same as what is 40F when he first set it up.
As for perceiving temperatures. Saying it's going to be 77F outside today vs 78F outside is absolutely meaningless. You're not going to be able to tell the difference. It will feel the same. Even 77F to 80F is almost meaningless. Your linked article (again a bad one) says people can't notice if temperature changes less than.5C in 30mins (so certainly couldn't 1F).
Perhaps yes, in a controlled room when exposed to slightly different temperatures immediately one after the other you might be able to tell one from the other, but 77F is the same as 78F as far as your perceptions would be concerned.
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I predict "an equal and opposite reaction"
The asteroid will fire a satellite back at us!
... Learn you to speak right, hon.
I'll say, though, that the problem is with the general population; try being an American visiting a local fish-and-chips establishment in England—man, your lower classes are a rough and inscrutable bunch!
I'm no "Lord of the Manor"; but, I believe my speech to be well annunciated and clear. (Just not an American accent). Even domestically, some of us have problems understanding people from some of the various regions.
A southerner might have difficulty understanding some of the people from Liverpool or Newcastle.
Calling it a slippery slope is a bit much. That's implying one barely related thing will cause another to happen without much of a logical reason in between.
If a device is a available to be sold that destigmatises the act. If you destigmatise the act, even a little, some people will be encouraged to act on it.
Having them use a robot is not going to kill their urges any more than using a sex toy/doll decreases the urge to have sex with a real woman/man. You ask any basement dweller if he'd rather be with a real woman. I bet 99% of them would.
Obviously, real world statistics would help, and we can't know the net impact with certainty; but I would suspect the % satiated with a robot would be almost 0 (just like it is for any current sex toy, or your right hand). The percent that the existence of such devices will increase their urge to act will be > 0%.
I don't know how big the increase would be. Any increase is a bad thing.
There is a massive difference between homosexuality and pedophilia.
One is the consensual relationship between two adults. The other is a non-consensual relationship between one person and a victim. Someone who has pedophilic fantasies may not be a bad person if it is something they cannot help. Someone who acts on those fantasies very much is doing a bad thing that deserves to be demonized.
15,000 skills and still misunderstands what I tell it 75% of the time.
Alexa's inability to understand an English accent is matched only by operators of fast-food drive thru restaurants in the US.
You should stop getting psychological advice from your local megachurch pastor.
Strawman much?
Absolutely this! My GF is too old to have kids, and I'm too old to raise kids. We still have a great relationship.
How do you function as a couple without someone bursting into your room saying their tummy hurts every time you try to be intimate? Or without being woken 20 times a night and getting cranky and annoyed with each other.
It must be very hard on your relationship.
Budweiser is never OK. It serves no purpose.
A rubber doll is not a person. It doesn't have feelings, or pain, or sex organs. It's a piles of plastic. This is like banning soda bottles because someone probably put their dick in one.
I have a brother in law who recently got caught in a sting by FBI agents posing as a mother and her 12 year old daughter online.
My brother in law is 50 and only recently started acting out on this sickness he claims to have had his entire life. What made him start seeking out underage sex after repressing it for 5 decades? I don't know. I haven't spoken to him in person since the arrest, and with any luck, will never speak to him again.
Something must have sparked his interest though.
I imagine there are other people like him. Holding back their immoral desires to prey on children. What impact would a child-robot have on them. For those like my brother in law, who are married, they won't possess their own, they wouldn't risk being caught. But hearing about them, and knowing they exist might excite them and push them over the edge.
For others who are single, they might buy a robot to satisfy their urge but would it be enough? Would a plastic soda bottle satisfy you and not make you want a real woman? Chances are no. You get an emotionless robot or plastic soda bottle, without the warmth or softness of flesh- and it would just make you want more.
I strongly suspect these robots would push over the edge those people suppressing their urges into actually acting. Even if they never own a robot themselves.
Being a pedophile is not illegal (in sane countries, anyway). Like being gay, it's just the way you are. Masturbating with the aid of a robot is not illegal. Masturbating with the aid of a robot that looks like a child should likewise not be illegal.
I'd much rather a pedo fucked a robot that looked like a kid rather than an actual kid.
Unless doing so either:
a) increased the urges and made them want the real thing more.
or
b) the existence of such robots "normalized" the desire to be a predator of children. And people who had the desire and fought it because they saw it as unnatural now acted upon the instincts and desires they had suppressed.
Just wait...people who are attracted to "sex robots" will be classified as yet another sexual orientation and will insist on marrying them, parading them around in public, and demand that the robot maintenance be included in their health benefits.
More likely than that, another group of people will actively persecute them for being different and having different interests than them.
The same people that bash homosexuality, transgenderism, and other cultures will have a new group of people to hate and discriminate against.
But why ban a robot that looks like a child?
I'd certainly rather have a person having sex with a robot than a child.
I think the GATEWAY mentality of drugs and sex has been shown to be false. It isn't like a child sex robot is going to convert a person with no interest in children into a pedophile.
It isn't like shooting up one marijuana is going to make you drink heroin.
Most men have a right hand; yet, given the choice, most would rather be with a real woman. Most women have a small device that eats batteries, yet most women would rather be with a real man.
I don't know what impact a robot child would have on a paedophile, but there is a strong chance it won't lessen his desires. It may have no impact, or it may have a positive feedback on the desires. What it will do is "normalize" that behavior, and may encourage some people to act out on fantasies.
Grover Cleveland, the only POTUS to serve 2 non-consecutive terms, was 49, and already President, when he married 21 year old Frances Folsom and was 54 when their 1st child was born and 66 for their fifth.
I'm in my late 30s and feel like I'm too old to have any more kids. There's no way I want to be having kids now and not getting them out of the house until I'm probably in my 60's.
My grandfather was capable of giving children even in his 70s.
My Dad gives children in his 70s too. He gives children candy, toys. Sometimes even books.
Why would I date a wrinkly, out-of-shape, pre-menopausal senior citizen shut-in with no modern interests, and that goes on and on about her grown-up children and how big her ex-boyfriend's cock was?
Sounds like you must have a small cock.
I liked the straddle bus. I found it an interesting and unique concept. It's that weird, out-of-the-box genius ideas the world needs.
Very disappointed I'll never see it developed.
If you ever been on a stand up roller coaster, are male, and have had the lower restraint (bicycle seat) set too high, you would fear turbulence on a stand up plane.
I recall going around a stand up roller coaster screaming.
It had nothing to do with the excitement of the ride- fortunately, three children prove it didn't do any permanent damage.
Honestly, I go by price because I assume all airlines are going to be just as bad as each other. If there were a sort by legroom option, I'd probably at least look at it. If it cost a little more for more room, I'd take it. The problem is, price is all we have to go on.
You run too fast, you fall over, crack your head open. Spend a few weeks recovering and are now far behind.
Too many hours and you don't produce quality of work. Studies have shown extra vacation and time away from the office INCREASE productivity.
Even if the above were not true. "Getting ahead" is not worth missing out on time with friends, family, and ..."me time". Happiness will always trump "getting ahead".
Take Off and Landing sound like adventures.
One wonders how the early white settlers ever survived their migration to the west.
Large numbers didn't. Lots of people starved.
I just had Tylenol and now I'm going to vote everyone's posts down on this topic.
Same here, the only things that work for me are tequila and nitrous oxide.
I wonder if you could make a sparkling Tequila?
Like soft drinks are "carbonated". Only instead of carbonation it would be nitrous oxide forming the bubbles.
You should check your sources. The first said there are several accounts as to how he set up the scale and lists that one above as one of them.
We don't even know for sure HOW or WHY he set up his measurement system- and it hasn't even remained the same over time. What is 40F today is not the same as what is 40F when he first set it up.
As for perceiving temperatures. Saying it's going to be 77F outside today vs 78F outside is absolutely meaningless. You're not going to be able to tell the difference. It will feel the same. Even 77F to 80F is almost meaningless. Your linked article (again a bad one) says people can't notice if temperature changes less than .5C in 30mins (so certainly couldn't 1F).
Perhaps yes, in a controlled room when exposed to slightly different temperatures immediately one after the other you might be able to tell one from the other, but 77F is the same as 78F as far as your perceptions would be concerned.