Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They canβt step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... Iβve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.
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- Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle. β¨ Andrew Vachss (2001). False Allegations, p.255, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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- Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
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