He puts temptation in the way of people he knows to be vulnerable.
Hmm.... who else does that?
On Minecraft, or in Photoshop?
That's it - you're barred, son. No relaxing cloth-based reclining structures or corny comestibles for you til you learn to respect your elders.
I honestly can't think of a worse crime than that.
Trolls?
Trolls?
...He is building his career on the misery of others. He is exploiting vice and tragedy for his own benefit. What could be more despicable than that?...
I simply don't believe that you can think of no worse crime than what Stinson does.
Very good.
But let me ask you some serious questions. You strike me as a fairly reasonable person. What do you make of the responses Stinson Hunter evokes in people? Does he not legitimize their darkest, most authoritarian and unabashedly sadistic impulses? Does he not do this for his own profit?
What about attempting to build your reputation as an iconoclastic internet warrior on the back of someone you declare to be building his career on the misery of others, exploiting vice and tragedy for his own benefit? That certainly seems pretty cuntish, if not despicable.
Seriously phil, do you really think you're adding anything worthwhile to this discussion in comparison, for instance, to elbows' thoughtful and nuanced post immediately before you burst in?
Stop grovelling you creep.
What about attempting to build your reputation as an iconoclastic internet warrior on the back of someone you declare to be building his career on the misery of others, exploiting vice and tragedy for his own benefit? That certainly seems pretty cuntish, if not despicable.
It is not so much what he does that I find repugnant (although I do find it extremely repugnant). It is more why he does it. He evinces an unthinking self-righteousness that, in my experience, is the exclusive preserve of the truly evil. And his naked hunger for fame and glory is beneath contempt.
I think some of the comments are deeply disturbing. But then so is some of the behaviour I see from people at football, or after they've had a drink - I don't blame the FA or brewers, though. I get the impression that he's motivated by something other than profit.
I didn't get that impression about his motivation from the programme.
So do I: psychosis.
What he does is different from the FA and the brewers. The responses he evokes aren't a side-effect of what he does. They are the whole point of what he does. They are his aim.
As usual beyond the hyperbole Phil is right Stinson does create an exciting world of sexual violence and fear, this is frightening
He (Stinson not Phil) totally gets off on it
Really? You think he's motivated by... what... altruism?
FFS. There are plenty of people working to stop child abuse in a non-self-aggrandizing fashion. He ain't one of them.
How do you know what motivates him, Phil?
No, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I suspect he's motivated by past trauma.
Phil is basically shooting the shit on a site where he is a known controversialist. Apples and oranges seems too mild an expression to use when comparing that to someone who ruins people's lives (regardless of whether that is justifiable or with good intentions).
Why so many nonces?
Only because they were nonced before?
If not, is part of it just natural?
I wouldn't say that.Yes indeedy. He (Stinson not anyone else) is the real pervert here.
Because he promotes himself like he was a brand of soap powder. He wants to be famous, the poor sap.
It's clearly part of the wider spectrum of human sexuality. Can't be much fun being wired that way I wouldn't have thought. Not in our society anyway.
Plenty of people suffer such trauma without feeling the need to set themselves up as Captain Noncebuster.
Rather a simplistic analysis. It might be true that he enjoys the fame, but I didn't get the feeling that was his main driver. And there are other reasons for publicity than to seek adulation e.g. for funding, as a deterrent for the sort of people he targets, to feel validated as he exorcises his own demons etc. etc.
And?