In my misspent youth I did a lot of cocaine. Not 80s business man amounts, but regionally touring rock band amounts. I was also regularly binge drinking. Not once did I have the urge to abuse a child in any way. That much cocaine did short circuit my inhibitions and I engaged in a lot of risky behaviors that I wouldn’t have otherwise but there wasn’t a single time that I looked at a kid and thought about them in any way except as a kid. In fact, if someone showed up with a kid while I was high I would leave because I didn’t want kids to see that.
I think it has something to do with the taboo nature of it. If you’re rich you can get away with more and more depraved shit. So eventually you turn to raping kids as one of the most depraved things a person can do.
I’m explaining it badly but basically it’s a ladder of behavior proving what they can get away with because to them it means they have power. Drugs happen to be a (lower) step on that ladder from their point of view. Can I get away with driving too fast or impaired? Cheating? Can I force my significant other into a threesome they don’t want? Drugs? And so on until it’s diddling kids, hunting people for sport, or eating the brains of live humans who are restrained in a table built for that purpose.
In my misspent youth I did a lot of cocaine. Not 80s business man amounts, but regionally touring rock band amounts. I was also regularly binge drinking. Not once did I have the urge to abuse a child in any way. That much cocaine did short circuit my inhibitions and I engaged in a lot of risky behaviors that I wouldn’t have otherwise but there wasn’t a single time that I looked at a kid and thought about them in any way except as a kid. In fact, if someone showed up with a kid while I was high I would leave because I didn’t want kids to see that.
I think it has something to do with the taboo nature of it. If you’re rich you can get away with more and more depraved shit. So eventually you turn to raping kids as one of the most depraved things a person can do.
I’m explaining it badly but basically it’s a ladder of behavior proving what they can get away with because to them it means they have power. Drugs happen to be a (lower) step on that ladder from their point of view. Can I get away with driving too fast or impaired? Cheating? Can I force my significant other into a threesome they don’t want? Drugs? And so on until it’s diddling kids, hunting people for sport, or eating the brains of live humans who are restrained in a table built for that purpose.