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It might be badly sourced ("according to /r/TIL"... smh) but the poop microbes + babby theory has some weight behind it. This was a pretty good book about the symbiotic human-microbe relationship I had to read for intro bio in college, and it mentions poop exposure as one of the ways humans get exposed to microbes in infancy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Five-Year-Could-Have/dp/0500290474

Registries are completely ineffective and are a purely reactionary measure that works well with getting votes. Age of consent laws are useless because they don't reflect reality and weren't even really enforced until feminists and religious conservatives in the late 1800's became concerned at young girls becoming more open with their sexuality and marrying older men for economic security or dating them because they had money. They likened it to prostitution.

A history of age of consent laws

Here's a brief overview

These laws have always unequally targeted men and teenagers, in fact in the US the supreme court made a ruling that stated only men can commit statutory rape.

Anybody having consensual sex with anybody should never be a crime. People have a right to their own bodies and they get to decide what to do with it.

As for pedophilia, that's a completely different ball game but here's some information:

Studies of child-hood sexuality:

http://www.ethicaltreatment.org/research.htm

http://www.ipce.info/booksreborn/martinson/infant/InfantAndChildSexuality.html

http://newgon.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://sexuality.spaceandmotion.com/sexual-development-children-teen.htm

http://www.ejhs.org/volume3/Haroian/body.htm

Studies done into the psychology industry:

http://www.amazon.com/First-Do-No-Harm-Industry/dp/0864700474/ref=sr_1_42?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347509168&sr=1-42&keywords=first+do+no+harm

http://newgon.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.srmhp.org/0402/child-abuse.html

http://www.srmhp.org/0402/repression.html

http://www.ipce.info/library/web-article/trauma-myth-susan-clancy-book-review

http://transres.freeweb7.com/levine.html

http://www.ipce.info/library_2/files/rind_jen.htm

http://www.nambla.org/trauma_myth.html

http://tanadineen.com/writer/writings/sexualharass.htm

Manufacturing Victims: http://tanadineen.com/documents/MV3.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Harmful-To-Minors-Protecting-Children/dp/0816640068/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pdT1_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=76HTLA12QPTR&coliid=I2ZYLJADY7SNA0

http://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Innocence-Culture-Child-Molesting/dp/0822321777/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=76HTLA12QPTR&coliid=I2OBVH6P4AIKLB

Articles and books on the hysteria and others:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Culture-Fear-Americans-Minorities/dp/0465003362

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41459

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/29/six-year-old-wisconsin-boy-being-prosecuted-for-playing-doctor-with-a-five-year-old/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,460225,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_County_child_abuse_cases

http://newgon.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.srmhp.org/0402/child-abuse.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20050310183555/http://logicalreality.com/openbb/board.php?FID=61

http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/faulty_science/us-congress-senate-condemn-scientific-researc

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/An_insight_into_child_porn/

http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/child-porn-witch-hunt/children-loved-child-porn-modeling-photo-sessions-were-the-highlight-of-my-life-children-traumatized-by-federal-government-prosecution

http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/i_did_not_know.htm

http://www.b4uact.org/facts.htm

http://www.vice.com/read/the-a-to-z-of-sexual-history-incest

http://www.historyundressed.com/2009/08/incest-within-royal-families.html

http://www.srmhp.org/0402/repression.html

http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/child-porn-witch-hunt/legal-child-pornography-reduces-child-sex-crimes-milton-diamond-hawaii

http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/teenage-sexuality/child-porn-laws-kill-destroy-lives-judge-jack-b-weinstein

http://transres.freeweb7.com/levine.html

http://human-stupidity.com/irrationality/stupid-dogma/child-porn-witch-hunt

http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/11/child-porn-laws-arent-as-bad-as-you-think-theyre-much-much-worse/

Plus, most wars throughout history weren't religious. The Encyclopedia of Wars lists only 123 of the cataloged 1,763 wars as being religious in nature.

> increased troop presence in somalia destabilizing the country while ignoring genocide in rwanda

For anyone interested in the Rwandan Genocide, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by a Canadian General in charge of peacekeeping in Rwanda is a MUST read. It really lays out the frustration they were feeling trying to get the UN and its super powers more involved. The US sat by mainly because of how badly we got beat up in Somalia and that the US public was dead set against losing soldiers to conflicts that didn't directly affect them :/

>Yeah... i haven't anything said about the khans except about the brutality.

Right, except for this book, which Reddit often slavishly praises:

>The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

Yea, and Hitler built the Autobahn!!1! \s

Read an American or European history textbook and tell me that Genghis Khan is viewed in the same light as Hitler.

>Liking. The swastika is different than naming your shop Hitler. Slick.

Are you just inserting random periods now?

Here is a restaurant called Genghis.

Here is a MongoDB app called Genghis

There's this movie on Genghis Khan, which, while very well produced and made, still glorifies a bloodthirsty barbarian.

>I have a different.view, i view any admiration of a mass murderer as insane. Deal with it.

insane- in a state of mind that prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.

Then I must disagree. Indians who glorify Hitler are merely acting from within their cultural contexts. They're not insane; maybe ignorant, but definitely not insane.

I get it: To Westerners, Hitler is the end-all and be-all of Evil. He is the Worst, with a capital W. You find it literally unfathomable that anyone before or after him could be remotely as Bad. That's because that's what you're taught in school. Indian textbooks don't really stress that as much. Is that a bad thing? Of course. Is that worse than Western textbooks glorifying Churchill, Genghis, etc.? Not particularly.

>And putting. Churchill. In the same ballpark shows how much you know. It's not much

Then you haven't heard of the Bengal famine

I was afraid this would happen. You essentially read exactly what you wanted to see in my post.

> Just because you didn't freak out or cry when you saw the World Trade Center collapse doesn't make you "all kinds of fucked up"

Where did I ever suggest that? You took something I said all the way at the bottom of my post, completely unrelated to my reaction as a teenager to the WTC, and tried to jiujitsu those things together.

To clarify, I said that if you were playing truly disturbing videogames at a young age, ones that place you in the roles of a genocidal death camp guard or a serial rapist, then you would be "all kinds of fucked up". That doesn't take a PhD from Harvard to figure out.

> Have you been desensitized to seeing violence happening on a screen? Apparently so. I can't say I or any of my gamer friends have had the same experience, but that's anecdotal evidence for you.

It's pretty much proven that Generation X and Y are far more desensitized to violence than previous generations because of media. That's just proof.

> Even if it's true, does it really matter? That doesn't make you any more likely to commit violence in real life, and I'm sure you'd still have a strong emotional reaction if you were actually involved with or witness to a real, in-person violent situation.

Yes, it does, because it cultivates a great potential to kill.

I recommend you to read On Killing by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a former psychology professor at West Point. West Point. You know, the military academy that trains future US Army officers. He's kind of an authority on what it takes to prepare soldiers to kill human targets.

His research compiled some very interesting facts. For example, Samuel Marshall, a Brigadier General and World War I vet, noticed that there was a big ratio disparity between rounds fired and rounds hit among servicemen in World War II. Few soldiers were even actively aiming at their targets.

To amend this, several training changes were made. The US Army replaced their bullseye targets with ones shaped like human silhouettes. Instead of firing at static targets, the focus was shifted to pop-up targets, forcing soldiers to react and fire rapidly. They didn't have the luxury to think about the action they were able to carry out.

The soldiers who graduated from this adjusted program and went into the Korean War had far higher kill ratios. Not because they were better trained, but because they were desensitized.

Videogames don't make you a killer but it gives you far greater potential to be one. I'm not foolish enough to think I've been immune to those effects and anyone who disagrees is laughing in the face of 70 years of proven military research.

You typed an emotional, reactionary reply where you assumed that I'm saying video games are bad. I'm not. Dude, you are talking to a guy who used to work for Major League Gaming. I probably put more hours into violent games than anyone else in this thread, but that doesn't mean I'm going to act like some threatened child whenever a serious psychological study comes up linking games and violence. I absolutely do believe there is a correlation. No doubt about it. Violence is a powerful tool to tell great stories but, like anything else, you get used to it over time. The first time you see naked women at a nude beach may be a big deal, but by the 50th time, they just becomes part of the background.

There's obviously a big difference between killing something in a game and killing in real life but even the simulation of it already prepares an individual to an extent. Basic Training is a far cry from actual warfare, but it prepares you.

By the way, if you read Grossman's book, you will see that he also agrees with us in saying that violence is not a bad thing in and of itself. On the contrary, it's actually a vital trait required in true self-defense. If there is a clear threat or danger to yourself or your loved ones, there's no way to guarantee that safety unless you're willing to kill to preserve those lives. What he's saying is that it's foolish to believe that violence is cultivated in a bubble. You can't tell me religious beliefs, political beliefs, or whatever lead to violence and then turn around and claim that suddenly certain mediums are just incapable of affecting the subconscious, especially a medium that features killing as a staple.