We thought those were crude Central American cultures sacrificing children, not civilized westerners. And we thought that humanity had evolved from such primitive beliefs. And then our instinct was like, “Why? That would be disgusting. Why would Tom Hanks possibly want to kill a child and drink it’s blood? It would be traumatizing. It would taste terrible. It makes no sense.”

We also thought that pedophilia was a kind of obscure miswiring of the brain. (Not that pedophiles deserve sympathy, because they don’t. Pedophiles should be executed by the state for crimes against children. And even if they claim it’s “not their fault” because “they were born this way”, just tell them it’s also not the rabid dog’s fault it got rabies, but we put it down anyway.) Before, if you said “pedophile”, we thought some weirdo loser in a basement with a pencil thin mustache who spends his afternoons hanging out in the alleyway across from the public school. Nobody realized that pedophilia is actually more of a fetish that can be pushed onto people, or that a Tom Hanks could have started as a normal straight man only to become a pedophile as he hangs out and fraternizes with pedophiles more and more. We also didn’t realize that amongst the elites, pedophilia is how they fast track careers so that pedophiles have been installed in all these key power positions. We also naively believed law enforcement was trying to hunt down and capture these pedophiles, not promote them.