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Zorkmid
Profile Joined November 2008
4410 Posts
November 10 2011 16:34 GMT
#841
In Canada we don't punish child molesters and child porn distributors harshly enough. 1-2 years for some crimes and they still get out early (though there are notable cases where these people take their own lives after sentencing). That said, I'm not convinced that these people can be rehabilitated at all, so I think all we're doing by throwing them in the clink is segregating them from the rest of society. I think an overall better way to deal with this issue in general is education. There is still a massive stigma for victims to speak out, and we don't go far enough to educate our kids in an open and explicit way that this danger exists.

It's just one of those fucked up things about the world. There's no right way to solve it.

Johnnybb
Profile Joined August 2010
Denmark486 Posts
November 10 2011 17:07 GMT
#842
Wow that is one messed up justice system.

User was warned for this post
yarkO
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada810 Posts
November 10 2011 19:04 GMT
#843
The downfall of society starts when we stop protecting our children. Anybody who says that possessing child porn should be met with anything other than the harshest of penalties needs a hard reality check.

They aren't just 'kinky', or have some 'fetish' that they are harboring innocently. There are millions of sites out there with people who LOOK young but are not. This pervert went and looked for CHILDREN HAVING SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS and kept what he found so he could repeatedly enjoy it.

He does not need counselling, he does not need pills, or a talking doctor; what he needs is to be permanently removed from society- and so he has. Kudos to a justice system that recognizes the severity of allowing children to be sexualized and marketed.

There's no hope for these monsters, stop acting like there is.
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zEMPd
Profile Joined June 2011
Angola259 Posts
November 10 2011 19:14 GMT
#844
We should rename this section of the forums to "CNN Top News / Google News" ..... Please?

User was temp banned for this post.
Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 19:31:19
November 10 2011 19:28 GMT
#845
On November 10 2011 14:59 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2011 11:46 weekendracer wrote:
On November 06 2011 10:21 Steel wrote:
He should be sentenced, no doubt. For life? No fucking way.

I think he should mostly be under surveillance for a long time..


Yeah, because 'surveillance' worked so well for Elizabeth Smart.

To address another point, he got a higher sentence because he lead to the molestation/rape of HUNDREDS of children vs just molesting ONE child. If you don't understand these children can not consent to the act by law so every picture is a picture of a rape in progress.

Read John Douglas's books on predatory sex crimes. They all start as a 'fetish' then progress. There are hundreds of kids missing in the US alone, not all of them are blonde/blue eyed media attention getters.

These people are dangerous, period. Beyond rehabilitation for the most part. Whoever let's this guy go has to live with the consequences of letting him back into the general public.

Sigh, this is a joke. I am a forensic psychology major and we literally just talked about this two days ago. Most pedophiles won't ever end up actually touching a child. Of those that view child pornography 1 out of every 50 will actually go on to molest a child.

So no, you are wrong and stop spouting of sensationalist nonsense please.


Cite your sources of 1 in 50 because that number is wrong. Multiple studies have been done on the topic of CP and further contact offenses. Roughly one in eight men convicted of CP possession have had a prior contact offense based on either arrests, charges, or convictions. Self survey studies have found it may actually be 1 in 2 though it's assumed higher because of the social context / consequences surrounding CP. Regardless, research has shown that there is a distinct sub group of offenders who pose very low risk and are considered online offenders only but determining which of these individuals convicted of CP possession is impossible at the moment.

Let's start throwing sources around instead of just bullshit. I'll start by naming a few
Seto, Hanson, Babchishin (2010)
Bourke and Hernandez (2009)
Seto (2006)
Wood et al., (2009)

OJJDP: CP pattenrs from NIBRS

And if you want to throw around your 'forensic psych major' bullshit. PhD student working on my dissertation on sex offending.
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sevencck
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada705 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 19:44:16
November 10 2011 19:42 GMT
#846
On November 10 2011 14:25 weekendracer wrote:
Show nested quote +





tl;dr
If it is not raping children or encouraging people to rape children in any way shape or form, why should it be illegal?



Again, if it is indeed a child in the pictures/video, a child is being raped, what part of that seems beyond the discussion. If I in any way promote such actions, how would I not be guilty of assisting the person doing the filming? Again, you are assuming that no money ever changed hands. Even if it's not in the indictment/complaint, it does not mean it didn't happen.

To side with your view, looking at a child and going home and dealing with the sensations would be harmless. Acquiring pictures or video is crossing the line and shows a progression. Once a subject shows a progression towards the act is where the danger lies. Does that part make sense to you?

I'll make an assumption that you're still young. I've seen evil like you wouldn't believe. I believe at least one or two people have posted personal stories of how this destroys a person. Those people who did what they did to them started 'somewhere'. I'd bet it started with what the subject of the story was doing. That's the trail to my thinking on this situation, unless you can prove me wrong other than I'm a biased, ignorant, <insert non-informative insult>. I have the writings and case studies of 30+ years of FBI data on my side, along with my 11 years of federal experience.



You've made a number of posts wherein you've talked about this progression. Put simply, this is called "Affirming the consequent," and it is a logical fallacy. The following is the structure of the fallacy: People who molest children watch child pornography. John Doe is watching child pornography. Therefore John Doe will molest a child.
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RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 20:04:58
November 10 2011 20:01 GMT
#847
On November 11 2011 04:28 Dknight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2011 14:59 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
On November 10 2011 11:46 weekendracer wrote:
On November 06 2011 10:21 Steel wrote:
He should be sentenced, no doubt. For life? No fucking way.

I think he should mostly be under surveillance for a long time..


Yeah, because 'surveillance' worked so well for Elizabeth Smart.

To address another point, he got a higher sentence because he lead to the molestation/rape of HUNDREDS of children vs just molesting ONE child. If you don't understand these children can not consent to the act by law so every picture is a picture of a rape in progress.

Read John Douglas's books on predatory sex crimes. They all start as a 'fetish' then progress. There are hundreds of kids missing in the US alone, not all of them are blonde/blue eyed media attention getters.

These people are dangerous, period. Beyond rehabilitation for the most part. Whoever let's this guy go has to live with the consequences of letting him back into the general public.

Sigh, this is a joke. I am a forensic psychology major and we literally just talked about this two days ago. Most pedophiles won't ever end up actually touching a child. Of those that view child pornography 1 out of every 50 will actually go on to molest a child.

So no, you are wrong and stop spouting of sensationalist nonsense please.


Cite your sources of 1 in 50 because that number is wrong. Multiple studies have been done on the topic of CP and further contact offenses. Roughly one in eight men convicted of CP possession have had a prior contact offense based on either arrests, charges, or convictions. Self survey studies have found it may actually be 1 in 2 though it's assumed higher because of the social context / consequences surrounding CP. Regardless, research has shown that there is a distinct sub group of offenders who pose very low risk and are considered online offenders only but determining which of these individuals convicted of CP possession is impossible at the moment.

Let's start throwing sources around instead of just bullshit. I'll start by naming a few
Seto, Hanson, Babchishin (2010)
Bourke and Hernandez (2009)
Seto (2006)
Wood et al., (2009)

OJJDP: CP pattenrs from NIBRS

And if you want to throw around your 'forensic psych major' bullshit. PhD student working on my dissertation on sex offending.


The first statistic (1:8) seems consistent with the argument made by some offenders that they are only interested in the pictures, and that surfing internet child pornography meets their needs and helps them to refrain from engaging in contact offenses. However, the second statistic (50%) gets to the heart of our (SO professionals) fears that many of these guys are just not getting caught. Indeed, under-reporting has always been the fly in the ointment for all of us quoting statistics regarding sexual abuse rates, incidence or recidivism.

The second meta-analysis focused on reoffense rates. Seto, Hanson, and Babchishin found quite low rates of reoffending in the samples of online child pornography offenders: 4.6% of offenders engaged in new offenses over follow-up periods ranging from 1.5 to 6 years of follow-up, with 2% engaging in new contact offenses and 3.4% incurring new charges for online child pornography offending. Pretty low rates of reoffending all around; although, we must honestly note that the follow-up times are short.

You are nitpicking information, you are referring to recidivism rates being obscenely high while I am referring to the latter statistics of those who watch child pornography not really committing offenses.
Edit: http://sajrt.blogspot.com/2010/12/are-all-online-child-pornography.html
your source, not mine.
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TheAura
Profile Joined November 2010
96 Posts
November 10 2011 20:02 GMT
#848
On November 11 2011 04:04 yarkO wrote:
The downfall of society starts when we stop protecting our children. Anybody who says that possessing child porn should be met with anything other than the harshest of penalties needs a hard reality check.

They aren't just 'kinky', or have some 'fetish' that they are harboring innocently. There are millions of sites out there with people who LOOK young but are not. This pervert went and looked for CHILDREN HAVING SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS and kept what he found so he could repeatedly enjoy it.

He does not need counselling, he does not need pills, or a talking doctor; what he needs is to be permanently removed from society- and so he has. Kudos to a justice system that recognizes the severity of allowing children to be sexualized and marketed.

There's no hope for these monsters, stop acting like there is.



kudos to the justice system? did you read the article? how can you justify that he would most likely not have been sentenced for life if he actually molested a child?

yes punish this creep, no doubt about it, but this is ridiculous.
CluEleSs_UK
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom583 Posts
November 10 2011 20:09 GMT
#849
I think people like this should be counselled, not jailed. I can totally understand an obsession with increasingly hardcore fetishes, and child porn is just the darkest area of that. The people have problems, they're not the sick fucks that people make them out to be. Ultimately, you can't help what you love.
"If it turns out he is leaving the ESL to focus on cooking crystal meth I'll agree that it is somewhat disgraceful, but I'll hold off judgement until then."
sVnteen
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2238 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 20:16:44
November 10 2011 20:15 GMT
#850
WOW this is a joke omg

this is not how the law is supposed to be since what this guy does is gross (but not as gross as raping what would have got him a lighter punishment) and its faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from 1st deree murder (and that is what you should get a life sentence for)

i dont know how this could even happen in a legal system like the one of the usa
(i mean can the judges just do what they want or how exactly did they come to this ?)
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Anktious
Profile Joined September 2010
United States190 Posts
November 10 2011 20:21 GMT
#851
I think this is adequate punishment for his crime, tbh.


My company did some private investigations in a case for the local police department and we helped put a pedophile rapist behind bars. He only got 45 years with a plea. This guy deserved life. I personally translated most of the documents since the guy didn't speak very much English, let alone write it and was pretty disgusting what he had done and how close he came to getting away with it.

People like this usually have a few screws missing in their head.

If we still had the electric chair (my state was one of the last ones to still use it), the guy I'm talking about most definitely deserved it.
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Millitron
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2611 Posts
November 10 2011 21:16 GMT
#852
On November 11 2011 05:21 Anktious wrote:
I think this is adequate punishment for his crime, tbh.


My company did some private investigations in a case for the local police department and we helped put a pedophile rapist behind bars. He only got 45 years with a plea. This guy deserved life. I personally translated most of the documents since the guy didn't speak very much English, let alone write it and was pretty disgusting what he had done and how close he came to getting away with it.

People like this usually have a few screws missing in their head.

If we still had the electric chair (my state was one of the last ones to still use it), the guy I'm talking about most definitely deserved it.

So, this pedophile rapist you're talking about only gets 45 years, yet you're fine with the guy in the OP getting life for just viewing CP? Remember, the guy in the OP didn't actually touch a single kid. Why should he get life when people who actually harmed kids don't?
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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
November 10 2011 21:31 GMT
#853
On November 11 2011 05:01 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 11 2011 04:28 Dknight wrote:
On November 10 2011 14:59 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
On November 10 2011 11:46 weekendracer wrote:
On November 06 2011 10:21 Steel wrote:
He should be sentenced, no doubt. For life? No fucking way.

I think he should mostly be under surveillance for a long time..


Yeah, because 'surveillance' worked so well for Elizabeth Smart.

To address another point, he got a higher sentence because he lead to the molestation/rape of HUNDREDS of children vs just molesting ONE child. If you don't understand these children can not consent to the act by law so every picture is a picture of a rape in progress.

Read John Douglas's books on predatory sex crimes. They all start as a 'fetish' then progress. There are hundreds of kids missing in the US alone, not all of them are blonde/blue eyed media attention getters.

These people are dangerous, period. Beyond rehabilitation for the most part. Whoever let's this guy go has to live with the consequences of letting him back into the general public.

Sigh, this is a joke. I am a forensic psychology major and we literally just talked about this two days ago. Most pedophiles won't ever end up actually touching a child. Of those that view child pornography 1 out of every 50 will actually go on to molest a child.

So no, you are wrong and stop spouting of sensationalist nonsense please.


Cite your sources of 1 in 50 because that number is wrong. Multiple studies have been done on the topic of CP and further contact offenses. Roughly one in eight men convicted of CP possession have had a prior contact offense based on either arrests, charges, or convictions. Self survey studies have found it may actually be 1 in 2 though it's assumed higher because of the social context / consequences surrounding CP. Regardless, research has shown that there is a distinct sub group of offenders who pose very low risk and are considered online offenders only but determining which of these individuals convicted of CP possession is impossible at the moment.

Let's start throwing sources around instead of just bullshit. I'll start by naming a few
Seto, Hanson, Babchishin (2010)
Bourke and Hernandez (2009)
Seto (2006)
Wood et al., (2009)

OJJDP: CP pattenrs from NIBRS

And if you want to throw around your 'forensic psych major' bullshit. PhD student working on my dissertation on sex offending.

Show nested quote +

The first statistic (1:8) seems consistent with the argument made by some offenders that they are only interested in the pictures, and that surfing internet child pornography meets their needs and helps them to refrain from engaging in contact offenses. However, the second statistic (50%) gets to the heart of our (SO professionals) fears that many of these guys are just not getting caught. Indeed, under-reporting has always been the fly in the ointment for all of us quoting statistics regarding sexual abuse rates, incidence or recidivism.

The second meta-analysis focused on reoffense rates. Seto, Hanson, and Babchishin found quite low rates of reoffending in the samples of online child pornography offenders: 4.6% of offenders engaged in new offenses over follow-up periods ranging from 1.5 to 6 years of follow-up, with 2% engaging in new contact offenses and 3.4% incurring new charges for online child pornography offending. Pretty low rates of reoffending all around; although, we must honestly note that the follow-up times are short.

You are nitpicking information, you are referring to recidivism rates being obscenely high while I am referring to the latter statistics of those who watch child pornography not really committing offenses.
Edit: http://sajrt.blogspot.com/2010/12/are-all-online-child-pornography.html
your source, not mine.


You still haven't cited your 1 in 50 fact.

Even when you take away Bourke and Hernandez's finding of 85% you're still left with 5 different articles that have found significantly higher self report rates than what is known..

Buschman (2009): 55%
Coward (2009): 33%
Neutz (2003): 57%
Quayle (2003): 48%
Wood (2009) 32%

I am not referring to recidivism rates being obscenely high. If anything, recidivism rates for sex offenders (other than pedophiles/rapists which hover around 40%) are the lowest known among all criminals at roughly 4-5%. Child sex offending has traditionally been one of the easier crimes to get away with because victims do not report it. Look at Sandunsky. The fact that more are not getting caught is not surprising. There isn't enough funds to combat or investigate child pornography at the moment.
WGT<3. Former CL/NW head admin.
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
November 10 2011 21:34 GMT
#854
On November 11 2011 06:31 Dknight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 11 2011 05:01 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
On November 11 2011 04:28 Dknight wrote:
On November 10 2011 14:59 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
On November 10 2011 11:46 weekendracer wrote:
On November 06 2011 10:21 Steel wrote:
He should be sentenced, no doubt. For life? No fucking way.

I think he should mostly be under surveillance for a long time..


Yeah, because 'surveillance' worked so well for Elizabeth Smart.

To address another point, he got a higher sentence because he lead to the molestation/rape of HUNDREDS of children vs just molesting ONE child. If you don't understand these children can not consent to the act by law so every picture is a picture of a rape in progress.

Read John Douglas's books on predatory sex crimes. They all start as a 'fetish' then progress. There are hundreds of kids missing in the US alone, not all of them are blonde/blue eyed media attention getters.

These people are dangerous, period. Beyond rehabilitation for the most part. Whoever let's this guy go has to live with the consequences of letting him back into the general public.

Sigh, this is a joke. I am a forensic psychology major and we literally just talked about this two days ago. Most pedophiles won't ever end up actually touching a child. Of those that view child pornography 1 out of every 50 will actually go on to molest a child.

So no, you are wrong and stop spouting of sensationalist nonsense please.


Cite your sources of 1 in 50 because that number is wrong. Multiple studies have been done on the topic of CP and further contact offenses. Roughly one in eight men convicted of CP possession have had a prior contact offense based on either arrests, charges, or convictions. Self survey studies have found it may actually be 1 in 2 though it's assumed higher because of the social context / consequences surrounding CP. Regardless, research has shown that there is a distinct sub group of offenders who pose very low risk and are considered online offenders only but determining which of these individuals convicted of CP possession is impossible at the moment.

Let's start throwing sources around instead of just bullshit. I'll start by naming a few
Seto, Hanson, Babchishin (2010)
Bourke and Hernandez (2009)
Seto (2006)
Wood et al., (2009)

OJJDP: CP pattenrs from NIBRS

And if you want to throw around your 'forensic psych major' bullshit. PhD student working on my dissertation on sex offending.


The first statistic (1:8) seems consistent with the argument made by some offenders that they are only interested in the pictures, and that surfing internet child pornography meets their needs and helps them to refrain from engaging in contact offenses. However, the second statistic (50%) gets to the heart of our (SO professionals) fears that many of these guys are just not getting caught. Indeed, under-reporting has always been the fly in the ointment for all of us quoting statistics regarding sexual abuse rates, incidence or recidivism.

The second meta-analysis focused on reoffense rates. Seto, Hanson, and Babchishin found quite low rates of reoffending in the samples of online child pornography offenders: 4.6% of offenders engaged in new offenses over follow-up periods ranging from 1.5 to 6 years of follow-up, with 2% engaging in new contact offenses and 3.4% incurring new charges for online child pornography offending. Pretty low rates of reoffending all around; although, we must honestly note that the follow-up times are short.

You are nitpicking information, you are referring to recidivism rates being obscenely high while I am referring to the latter statistics of those who watch child pornography not really committing offenses.
Edit: http://sajrt.blogspot.com/2010/12/are-all-online-child-pornography.html
your source, not mine.


You still haven't cited your 1 in 50 fact.

Even when you take away Bourke and Hernandez's finding of 85% you're still left with 5 different articles that have found significantly higher self report rates than what is known..

Buschman (2009): 55%
Coward (2009): 33%
Neutz (2003): 57%
Quayle (2003): 48%
Wood (2009) 32%

I am not referring to recidivism rates being obscenely high. If anything, recidivism rates for sex offenders (other than pedophiles/rapists which hover around 40%) are the lowest known among all criminals at roughly 4-5%. Child sex offending has traditionally been one of the easier crimes to get away with because victims do not report it. Look at Sandunsky. The fact that more are not getting caught is not surprising. There isn't enough funds to combat or investigate child pornography at the moment.

I apparently was wrong about the 1/50 statistic. I emailed my professor and she said something relating to the 2%, I might of extrapolated 1/50 from that.
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Ayaz2810
Profile Joined September 2011
United States2763 Posts
November 10 2011 21:38 GMT
#855
Watching CP encourages the production. Doing/buying drugs encourages the production. Watching a certain TV show encourages the production.

By possessing CP, you are indirectly causing more children to come to harm. Big jail sentence, yes. Life, probably not. I would be okay with probably 20-25 and some serious counseling or whatever can be provided.

Anyone who acts like CP is a harmless fetish is delusional.
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archonOOid
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1983 Posts
November 10 2011 21:43 GMT
#856
sweden can't beat usa on the length of the punishment but the content. A swedish person had to pay prison time for posession of manga comics which displayed children in sexual situations. Yeah that's right. Nobody was hurt exept the translator of the manga comics.
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Hertzy
Profile Joined September 2011
Finland355 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 21:59:46
November 10 2011 21:47 GMT
#857
On November 11 2011 04:04 yarkO wrote:
The downfall of society starts when we stop protecting our children. Anybody who says that possessing child porn should be met with anything other than the harshest of penalties needs a hard reality check.

They aren't just 'kinky', or have some 'fetish' that they are harboring innocently. There are millions of sites out there with people who LOOK young but are not. This pervert went and looked for CHILDREN HAVING SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS and kept what he found so he could repeatedly enjoy it.

He does not need counselling, he does not need pills, or a talking doctor; what he needs is to be permanently removed from society- and so he has. Kudos to a justice system that recognizes the severity of allowing children to be sexualized and marketed.

There's no hope for these monsters, stop acting like there is.


I generally agree with you, with two caveats;

1) There are some gray areas, such as drawings of CP and having the images maliciously planted. Also, it should go without saying that this should apply to imagery of prepubescents having sexual encounters, not the same featuring pubescent individuals. Possessing imagery of not-legally-adult pubescent people having sexual encounters is, in my opinion, a lesser crime.
2) If you are going to remove someone from society permanently with no chance of return, you should use the death penalty.

EDIT: A third caveat, pedophilia is a mental disorder and the option of treating the perpetrator should be considered before sending them to the gallows.
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acker
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2958 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 22:11:33
November 10 2011 21:58 GMT
#858
On November 11 2011 06:38 ayaz2810 wrote:
Doing/buying drugs encourages the production. Watching a certain TV show encourages the production.


By your logic, pirating music and video games and playing them helps the production of music and video games.

It would seem that the link between using the product and paying for the product is what encourages production, not the use of the product in of itself. If you can use the product without paying for it, be the method of payment advertisement or direct, you're hurting production.

Of course, you could hurt production in other ways. Most notably, by introducing a competing good like virtual child pornography (lolicon). But that's never going to happen, not with the moral guardians around here.
Horangi
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Hong Kong226 Posts
November 10 2011 22:53 GMT
#859
As horrible and gross childpornography is, i dont think this kind of punishment is necessary.
As the OP said, he didnt harm any of these children (yet), only thing what he did was looking at the pictures.
prison time for 5 years would be fair enough in my opinion.
robopork
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States511 Posts
November 10 2011 23:05 GMT
#860
It doesn't break my heart, but I think this is grossly disproportionate considering what other crimes receive. It's not a huge stretch to say that in terms of the greater good, a justice system that's capable of getting away with such inequity is more dangerous than this guy has proven to be if he just walks.

That being said, he needs to be in jail for a long, long time.
“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
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