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Religion has historically provided a safe haven to the sick and twisted among society, where they're allowed to act with impunity due to their perceived status.
That's not directly due to the religion; but rather due to the societal pedestal being devout seems to put people on; "a holy person could never do that to a child" etc...
The reality is, other areas that benefit from this sort of status too find themselves riddled with bad actors... Just look through charity organisations and I can guarantee you'll be combing over a sea of sociopaths buying themselves good credit with public opinion rather than people looking to make a difference because they want to (not to say these people don't exist; they just don't end up running the show normally)
All inequality creates abuse.
Your last paragraph reminded me of Ashton Kutcher… I can’t watch that 70s show anymore. It was my favorite tv show of all time.
You mean Masterson? Or am I forgetting some gross shit Ashton Kutcher did?
The both of them are complete gross. Ashton started a charity when he was with Demi on combating child sexual abuse and exploitation, and he wrote a letter defending/supporting Danny in the trial.
I used to love The Cosby Show. Unwatchable now even if they would still air it.
That was one of my comfort shows, and I can’t watch it either.
mental health nurses who work in an asylum/"hospital"/"mental health unit" too according to a friend who works in one as a nurse.
The rosy romanticisation of what should be a humanitarian entity is probably worst with Buddhism. The Buddhist majority-Burmese oppressing the Rohyngian Muslims, some Buddhist monks advocating for dominance in South East Asia, and even pre-CCP Tibet where the dalai lama and his ilks were decadent and corrupt, seem unfathomable for many who view Buddhism as the most secular and least dogmatic religion. There was an article I have read lamenting this corruption in Buddhist communities, and I was like "they are still humans, what do you expect?"
Fuck off sino shill, CCP is not doing any Tibetans favour's by invading their country, they are a bunch of corrupt dictators
Not making CCP any better here, but truth is truth and doesn't care about your feelings. Was it China's business to invade Tibet? No, but pre-CCP Tibet was a corrupt theocratic state similar to Iran and Renaissance-era Vatican.
And what's your source for any of this, I can bring up multiple sources for the atrocities done by the CCP on their own citizens (tiananmen square massacre) and those of neighboring nations, can you back up any of what you claim about Tibet, and even if it were true that does not give China any rights to invade them. Should the other countries invade China for their corrupt leaders then?
Amongst others these:
Both the old theocratic feudal state and the CCP oppressed state are bad
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world is not a "Sino-Shill", none is questioning the atrocities of the CCP. Please re-read this thread.
Unhelpful American chiming in: if the Finns, or Danes are feeling feisity we could really use a regime change..
You could literally google and see sources what life was like in Tibet before. China is bad, and Tibet before was bad. Many things can be true at the same time. It is just the fact of life. No one is backing up China, it is only you problem if that is you are being emotional on a factual statement.
Look into any situation where there is a massive disparity of power between some people and other people and that's were you will find the most abuses and I totally agree it's for the reasons you said of there being far less risk for the abusers due to their "status" and that such places actually attract the worst people in society so it's a bit of self-fullfilling prophecy that putting too much power and not enough transparency and accountability in a position will invariably end up with it being abused, even if you start with the purest of people and the purest of intentions.
This is also probably why there was (and only time will tell if that's still or not the case) so much child sexual abuse in the Catholic church: adult in high standing in the community and implicitly trusted by all vs child (generally from a poor background).
Thinking about this over the years (mainly for Politics, but it applies to other areas) has led me to conclude that the "good" exercise of power is impossible to get from a static situation (i.e. the idealistic idea that "give power to honest people" solves it) and instead it has to be setup as a dynamic mechanism with frequent rotation of people and multiple unrelated (ideally, competing) people watching over each other other (which is probably where the ide behind the Three Pillars Of Democracy) and whose power balances.
Exactly concentrating power in the hands of a few is a recipe for disaster, doesn't matter if you elect uncle Roger to the post. Power needs to be distributed and the people who have it should be in constant fear of losing it if they don't work towards gaining the favor of the masses by working towards the betterment of society. This is why I find morons who pick political sides as if it's a sports team so stupid, neither side should think you belong to them, they should worry about you flipping your mind all the time.
Couldn't agree more!