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Originally Posted by Lucas  Not at all, where did you get that idea? A child is defenseless, regardless of what it was before it was born, and to prey upon that innocence is quite disgusting. However, you chose what life experience you wanted, so you cannot blame outside forces for what happens in your life. |
You have a flaw in your logic. You presume that we choose our life experiences and cannot therefore whine if we are acted on by outside forces. Is not the molester an outside force? And did not the child choose their experience? If we ran the world according to the 'we are all experiencing things we have chosen' school, then there really should be no laws. It would mean that some people have 'chosen' to be predators and some people have 'chosen' to be prey. When that little four year old girl is repeatedly raped by a grown man, strangled and has her body thrown out on the side of a desert road (true story), that was an experience she chose to have before she was born. Therefore, how can you denounce the rapist? This is the problem I start having when you get into 'we choose' scenarios. I cannot support any spirituality or belief system which includes the torture of children as a logical working part. It's why I don't do God. It's why I don't do any of the 'we choose our experiences before we were born' deals or, really, even a completely subjective reality. I can accept that bad things will sometimes happen to innocent people because negative energy is working through someone else and needs an outlet and the innocent person was not actively attracting positive energy to deflect it. These are my personal mental gymnastics to work my way around '♥♥♥♥♥ happens'. I get that other people handle it differently.