Sexual Predation What If It’s a Psychological Condition”?
Sexual Predation
What If It’s
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“Psychological Condition”
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“Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
-Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet
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The law of average thoughts
It seems that this is a day and age in, which the electors are no longer inclined to support candidates who they see as being their superiors in intellect or even comportment. A day and age where the once hallowed representative form of democracy has been bent, spindled and mutilated, such that it barely resembles that, which the forefathers of American liberty once conceived.
Today, where reality, for many exists in a place that fits in the hollow of one’s hand; the average sort amongst us seems constantly: to conspire. A conspiracy is engaged.
Engaged. In order to perpetuate her and his ilk, such that politics, entertainment, and most any other form of information seeks and eventually secures its own level. That is, the level of: the average.
“Average”. That is not so much some place of natural balance, which results from the effects of a perfect melding of the lows of the sullen and the highs of the sublime. Rather, “average”, which seems more the result of a tacit conspiracy undertaken by the average in search of the average.
Perhaps, “average” is another iteration of natural democratic will. Perhaps, with help of an egalitarian American, democracy we are destined to be no better than our average selves. Who eventually form an average society. Which, in turn, tends to beget itself.
In an average society then, can we really distinguish: what is “good”; what is “bad”?
The point is. That often, we tend to excuse our worst selves. After all, the road to average is paved with excuses.
“The road to average. Is paved with excuses.”
-Julius D. Thomas
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Human imperfection as ‘Art Form’
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
-Oscar Wilde
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Furthermore, it seems today, that it is the will of many of us as individuals. Just as it is the wont of our society, as a body politic, to acknowledge and embrace the failures, shortcomings and imperfections of average existence.
Examples of such acknowledgments can be found in many forms. As: pubic service television announcements and certain genre of cinema for instance. As well as in other popular media productions each of, which often eagerly entertains, what amount to the confessions of folks who might have been former convicts or addicts, for example.
Consider. There is a type of public service announcement image that airs with regularity. With somber mien, women and men address a camera and confess sins of past behavior.
They might explain that, in a clinical sense, theirs was a sin against themselves and society as a whole, as well as other specific fellows or friends. Which transgression was caused due to an underlying “condition” that resulted in aberrant behavior. Perhaps, they were little more than helpless in its effects.
Or Hollywood often portrays with frightening reality the characters of various fatally flawed personae. Who, without explanation or disclaimer, conduct themselves in wanton fashion. All, too often: to the extreme delight of the averageconsuming audience.
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By their very presence, either in the TV “confessional box” or personified in various on-screen dramatis personae. There is an implicit message that “average” folks have been or will be or should be: excused, or even lionized for their transgressions. To some of us, though, even the vaunted actors who portray larger-than-life characters, as well as, those average folks among us who confess aberrant behaviors in somber, plaintive public atonements might be persons and behaviors that seem suspect.
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In consideration for: general mea culpa or specific apology for questionable or illegal behavior or their compelling “artistic” portrayals, however. Greater society has proposed a way, in which what were plainly disruptive acts can, in fact, somehow be miraculously lessened in their perceived severity and effectively: forgiven. Moreover, documented displays of apparent, anti-social or even illicit behaviors might be refashioned as some form of innate, irresistiblecharacter flaw. That is excusable.
Furthermore. What might have been mere tacit behavior or even explicit acts carried out with a clear intention to rob society of its natural peace and serenity. May be benignly overlooked by certain segments of that same society that might be overindulgent and egalitarian in a uniquely American way.
Additionally. That the transgressions of real persons who actually, publicly confess or actors who theatrically portray the dangerously flawed character, are recognized, not so much as being the conscious “fault” of the perpetrator, but rather the result of some readily excusable, individual, aberrant mental energy. To, which she or he is allowed to admit a certain lack of control.
More often than not, in the specific case of a recorded confession that panders to the ‘better angels’ of the public interest, the details of a lack of personal control, which is often linked to some form of disability, dependency or addiction, things ordinarily the death knell for the plight of the conventionally criminally culpable; are used to free the offending person of responsibility. Likewise, an indulgent audience will often applaud the actions of the larger-than-life, cinematic anti-hero, screen persona. Whose actor is saddled with the grim theatrical responsibility of artistically portraying some sordid details of serial social dysfunction.
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To the socially sensitive conscience, this type of character flaw exposure might seem completely plausible. Just get the poor addict or contrite reformed criminal some: “help”. Or the artistically accurate character portrayal of such flawed persona might be deemed eminently worthy of receipt of some coveted, theatrical accomplishment award.
To the more socially suspicious conscience, however, more often than not, this type of character flaw is inexcusable. Art imitates life…imitates, Art…
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The devil and the details…
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“First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Wm. Shakespeare, King Henry VI
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There will be a time, in the not-too-distant future. When, while gazing at their own palm-technology, those who hungrily follow the news “stories” that portray sordid affairs and atrocious allegations. Such as sexual predation on the part of screen heroes or other seeming responsible folks in entertainment and industry and, even, politics: will bear witness to a shocking and resounding, legal denouement.
There will be a time when, in defense of her or his client. An enterprising attorney eagerly presents a convincing professional witness.
Who, while under oath, describes a premise and proffers an opinion based on ‘a reasonable degree of medical certainty’. That: ‘the actions of the defendant were beyond her or his control due to an underlying psychological state that rendered she or he unable to resist the impulse to act out in the manner alleged’.
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The art of re-branding
In short, the incident that caused the allegation of sexual predation will likely be portrayed as one that had been beyond the conscious control of the accused. Thus the compulsive acting-out was, perhaps, due to some obsessive notion, for instance and thus was excusable and undeserving of criminal prosecution or even insensitive public allegation.
The accused, in short would be reduced to nothing more than an average person. Who was under the control of a mental preoccupation that rendered her or him uncontrollably addicted to the behavior demonstrated.
The accused, it will be averred. Should thus be helped to resolution of the “problem”. Not hampered from making an eager and free acknowledgment to the whole world that the “condition” is a disease not unlike any other. Including: alcoholism, drug dependency, obsessive-compulsive disorder, nicotine dependence, depression, bi-polar disorder or the underlying medical premises for a variety of now readily excusable, postmodern, socially admissible behavior that visits society so often this day.
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[The preceding is not nor should it be deemed either legal advice or a rendition of established legal dictum.]
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Posted 11 minutes ago by DILULIUS, King of Troy