i hope it doesn't sound as if i am praying for the guy to go down in flames, firing up my torch and sharpening my pitchfork. i'm not.
but if he just gave them his cc info, etc., to prove something, to give to the police... why? there ARE law enforcement agencies doing the same thing, obviously. and no matter one's good intentions, it's still illegal.
and of course i understand the taboo fascination this.. stuff has, for many former.. (ugh, the word "victims" still sucks. but i have to use it anyway.) that's the thing that not one of the various and sundry popular methods for "getting over it" will acknowledge. but just because it's darkly attractive to someone doesn't make it acceptable. and using one's own abuse as a justification is embracing sick victim culture with open arms. which is reprehensible. it's like people who pity abusers because said abusers were perhaps abused as children... so? where can one find sympathy for not being responsible for one's own actions?
i meant it was an odd excuse - explanation would doubtless have been a better word - in the sense that i didn't think it would clarify much. better to not have said anything, i think. but hey, i'm not pete townshend, am i?
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but if he just gave them his cc info, etc., to prove something, to give to the police... why? there ARE law enforcement agencies doing the same thing, obviously. and no matter one's good intentions, it's still illegal.
and of course i understand the taboo fascination this.. stuff has, for many former.. (ugh, the word "victims" still sucks. but i have to use it anyway.) that's the thing that not one of the various and sundry popular methods for "getting over it" will acknowledge. but just because it's darkly attractive to someone doesn't make it acceptable. and using one's own abuse as a justification is embracing sick victim culture with open arms. which is reprehensible. it's like people who pity abusers because said abusers were perhaps abused as children... so? where can one find sympathy for not being responsible for one's own actions?
i meant it was an odd excuse - explanation would doubtless have been a better word - in the sense that i didn't think it would clarify much. better to not have said anything, i think. but hey, i'm not pete townshend, am i?
i sound like the morality police. i'll stop now.