I keep seeing videos lately of grown men posing as children online and baiting individuals to public spaces and either assaulting them or recording/exposing them for content. While I don’t mind the idea of a predator being outed, the idea of grown adults posing as children online seems unsavory to me. Especially if their end goal isn’t to protect children, and is to provide content for views.

Obviously, being a child predator is wildly immoral and illegal and their actions are not what’s being debated.

    • Mango@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      If the vigilante thing becomes a thing, you could fabricate your way through whatever murder you want.

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        1 month ago

        Just pull a Rittenhouse. Show up with a gun and wave it around until someone tries to disarm you, now you fear for your life and can shit them.

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          1 month ago

          I’m hoping those downvotes are from people who aren’t clever enough to understand I was making a point of how bad that all is.