Anglerphobe wrote:It's disquieting to read the many comments masturbating over their own impotent rage; fantasising about tortures and all kinds of brutality. I'd like to think it's just these people's way of handling the shock of what they've read, but I don't like seeing it.
It doesn't make it right at all, but it is a gut reaction. The thing about children is that they trust adults. Especially their parents. A lot of children will defend their parents after they've done these things because they now have a horribly messed up view of what love is and what's appropriate because they trust their parents.
So when you read about rape and torture it's horrifying and terrible, but it hits people harder with children because they're so young, innocent, and trusting. The worst part is that they trust these people and they love these people and they don't know or understand that what's happening is wrong and shouldn't be happening. Especially the very young ones, this is what they'll grow up knowing. This is what they'll think love is. This is what they'll think love is from their parents, the very people who should be protecting them from all of this. And the ones who are in pain and hate it, they'll probably think there's something wrong with themselves and not their abusers.
So when you think about the people supposed to protect these children actually doing horrible things to them, and justifying it no less, and in some cases acting smug or arrogant about it, or casually dismissing it with some "lol"'s, it's enough to make everyone angry and then our baser violent instincts come out. We want them to feel the pain they're causing these children and more.
Most people won't react on these, it's just a way of venting the stress and the frustration and the hurt because most of us aren't able to stop it. Again, it doesn't make it right, just explaining