I find it alarming that to “protect” women, men have to be surveilled secretly in all public places. This is way beyond dystopian.

AI and remote security personnel get to decide if someone is “a predator” and take 'em down preemptively if they look suspicious.

What could possibly go wrong?

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    You did it when you spent a considerable amount of space explaining how sexual abuse is different because these abusers don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, so society needs a way to police them.

    Nope. I actually never once advocated for more surveillance, and in fact tacitly argued against it in this comment. I spent a considerate amount of space explaining why this is a massive issue that can’t easily be solved by simply telling people not to commit sexual assault, and that in order to reduce it, we need to educate people on what sexual assault is and instill in them the fact that they are capable of committing it. Like, I literally said that the problem was largely that we live in a society that normalizes sexual assault. This isn’t something that more surveillance could solve.

    […] and presented a huge cultural shift as the solution. This neatly leaves the uncareful reader to potentially conclude that the surveilance is a reasonable approach to deal with an intractable social problem.

    No. The “huge cultural shift” I was talking about was a shift away from a culture that rationalizes and justifies sexual assault, which I made clear in the same paragraph in which I said “enormous cultural shift.” I forgot that Lemmings can’t read, and that was my bad.

    *Edited the formatting to make my argument flow better

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      Well, I put this as side to look closer and respond intelligently, and never really took that time.

      Based on your response and the fact I’m not going to analyze your earlier post and my response more deeply, I’m going to acknowledge that I likely misinterpreted your intent given I agree with most of this particular comment’s apparent intent.

      TL;DR;

      I probably misunderstood you and apologize for the accusation.