Have you ever had Sympathy for a prostitute or a serial killer?

Hitler was a good man, give him his due.

People who don't feel sympathy for someone's circumstances or more accurately vilify them are essentially frightened of the thought of exploring a deeper level of humanity. It terrifies them so they slam the shutters down and effectively engage in victim blaming.

One is an entirely victimless "crime" and the other is very decidedly not. Silly comparison in my view.

I met a prostitute two or three years back on my way home from a night out in Dublin City, during one of those very cold snaps we had a few Winters back. She was sitting on one of those triangular bridges over the canal around Charlemont or Leeson Street. I was walking home and she called out and asked if I was "looking for business", I replied that it was far too cold and that I didn't reckon she'd get any customers on that particular night as town was already fairly empty and it was so unimaginably cold (I was heading for a night bus but the vast majority of people had left the club and gone straight for the nearest taxi), and she shrugged and said I'd be surprised.

Definitely felt incredibly sorry for her though, soliciting clients at 4AM in sub-zero December temperatures must have been f*cking miserable, and it got me thinking how absurd it is that people like her aren't allowed to just openly advertise for clients from their home or work for a business which might have central heating and a roof for them to work under. Prohibition of prostitution is utterly ridiculous. By all means ruthlessly prosecute the non-consensual side of the business and stamp it out, but telling people what they can or cannot do with their own bodies is fundamentally immoral on the most basic level.

Being expected to have sympathy for either prostitutes or serial killers, or serial killers who engage in prostitution, is just not something I’m bothered to do tbh. I wouldn’t have sympathy for anyone who chooses to enter into prostitution, or kills anyone else, never mind several people, regardless of how they attempt to justify their behaviour. It’s an excuse, not a justification.

Using that rationale, it would stand to reason that anyone who experiences abuse as children is more likely to become a serial killer or engage in prostitution, or both, and it simply isn’t the case for people who choose to become either serial killers or people who choose to engage in prostitution, that they had any sort of ill experiences in childhood which led them directly to becoming either serial killers, prostitutes, or both.

Certainly I would have sympathy for anyone who experienced a difficult childhood, but using their difficult childhood to justify their behaviour as adults? I don’t think so.

The unibomber wasn't half wrong to be fair to him just his methods were a bit extreme.

Yeah, I only clicked the thread because I was shocked that someone would compare someone working in the sex industry & a serial killer. Serial killer will get at least one life sentence if caught. Call girl won't have any charges let alone convictions for her work

Most serial killers are below average intelligence you have been sucked into the media made belief they are all super smart. They are as human as anyone else and that you can determine they are sub-human actually suggest psychopathy in you. The fact you can believe a person is damaged and don't care how they became damaged and how to prevent it happening to others suggests you lack basic empathy which again indicates psychopathy. You should look it up as it doesn't mean what you think it does as it doesn't mean you are a danger to others.

You can mistreat 2 dogs and one will be a cowering mess and the other vicious snarling beast. Both are victims of abuse one is just easier to have sympathy for and the same applies to people. Nice and easy to say lock them up and never help them especially if you arleady decided they are subhuman. It is the same excuse people have used for genocide and war.

The title of your post says "prostitute or a serial killer" in other words you're asking 2 questions

"Have you ever had Sympathy for a prostitute"

"Have you ever had Sympathy for a serial killer"

What you probably meant to ask was "prostitue AND and serial killer" ?!? But still the prostitute aspect is irrelevant

That is psychotic. At what point of being 4 did she choose to be rapped? Say if nobody ever taught you to read or write growing up, would it be your fault you couldn't read or write at 16? Would it effect your choices going forward? Now apply that to any knowledge you should get growing up including sexual consent and self esteem