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least they can volunteer for the job and try to get that job, you're always going to have massive sexual abuse. Because who in the world wants those jobs more than a pedophile? The pedophile is going to be the most motivated, the one who will take the lowest pay to do the job, the one who will suffer the worst conditions to do the job. You should expect that over time — and I hope this isn't too…
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You've created a situation with the scouts and with the Catholic Church that pretty much guarantees it attracts a certain type of person because they would have the greatest incentive. And nothing stops that. It's hard to find any example where incentives that are that strong and that clear don't drive behavior. I mean that you should expect it.
That is pretty much what's going on. I'm going to get to one other topic that everybody hates me for because I thought of a better way to explain it. I've been arguing about transgenders being allowed to play sports in the gender that they have ended up in. And I note that pretty much everybody who argues against me first assigns to me an incorrect opinion and then get really mad about the incorrect opinion.
So I thought it must be the way I'm explaining it that is making people hear it differently than I'm thinking it. So I'm going to try to give you the best explanation I can that would make me the most immune from somebody misidentifying my point.
Here's my point. All sports currently are a giant pile of crap. And by that I mean they're sports. They work to deify the people who are good at sports who were just born lucky with a good genetic combination and maybe the right family situation so that they can excel at sports and deify people who just by luck were born with the right stuff. That is all of the other people don't get to be good athletes and they get to learn that they are inferior to those few people who were born with these special skills.
I'm somewhere in the
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middle of that heap. I was not born with special athletic skills but I'm way above average in terms of athletic ability. Still most of what I experience is losing. If I run in a tournament with lots of teams my team probably won't win. If I join a team I'm probably not going to be the best one on it. I might not even get to play. Am I sitting on the bench? If you've experienced watching sports, e…
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