Fun fact: People with certain proclivities often cannot conceive of other people not sharing those proclivities. In this case, a serial sexual assaulter and rapist assumes that all men are prone to the same behavior. This is a prime example of what is commonly known as a “self-report.”
Penn Jillette has a short but great piece about that. It’s a response to the people who insist that religion is necessary, because otherwise people would rape and murder indiscriminately. His response is that as an atheist he commits all the rapes and murders he wants, which is zero. If you need the threat of eternal damnation to keep you from doing those things then you just aren’t a good person. I’m kind of paraphrasing but you get the point.
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u/Own-Cupcake7586 Dec 17 '24
Fun fact: People with certain proclivities often cannot conceive of other people not sharing those proclivities. In this case, a serial sexual assaulter and rapist assumes that all men are prone to the same behavior. This is a prime example of what is commonly known as a “self-report.”