Last month, I started a thread on Mu's MAP Forum about willingness to help a stranger. The premise was essentially this:

• Most 'regular' people want MAPs dead simply for what goes on in our heads, not because they want to keep children safe.
• This being so, I would not help an adult in an emergency situation.

All of the respondents thought my position was extreme in being wholly unwilling to help. They insisted they would help a fellow human in need, a testament to the basic decency of the MAP community.

Note that I am not inherently devoid of empathy or concern for other people. I have never been a huge socialite, and I have never been a 'people person', but I did use to possess a basic level of concern for others. Seeing others suffer bothered me.

However, after doing vast amounts of research and reading for my articles, my position has changed. I just don't feel it any more.

It has become crystal clear that MAP hysteria has very little to do with actually protecting children, and rather sustains itself for a myriad of selfish and cynical reasons. When you realize that your MAP friends are made miserable, sent to prison, or driven to suicide purely due to the sheer selfishness and nastiness of the general adult population, how can you feel anything positive toward the world? How can you not wish the same horrors upon those who brutally oppress you for no good reason?

It is absurd to be friends with someone who would see you murdered for your feelings of love. As such, for MAPs who see the dreadful reality as I do, there is a very strong push to avoid adults and focus solely on spending time with children. Kids, at least, are not consumed by such bitter hatred. Obviously this pattern of socialization is quite ironic, because MAPs being around children is the public's worst nightmare, even if nothing bad happens. Remember again that it's our feelings that bother the public, and when we are around children, we are actively appreciating them.

Of course, there are some decent adults in the world, those who do not subscribe to the extreme narrative. I have a number of supportive readers who are not MAPs, who made their way to MAP Forum via this blog. I would not wish death upon those people; in fact, I wish them the very best in life. But the crushing weight of public sentiment is decidedly against MAPs to the extent that it really does make me wonder how a MAP could feel any warmth for the human race in general. It's certainly not reciprocated.