I'm going to tell you a story. At the end of it you, the reader, must render a verdict.
Suppose you are a man named Zedekiah. The last king of Judah. His sight was taken by Nebuchadnezzar II but not before he witnessed the execution of his sons. It was in a way torture for the sake of torture. Pain and misery for pain for anothers pleasure even if it also serves as a warning to others. This idea might be summed up in the German word - schadenfreude, which combines the words damage and joy. It is truly a sick world and the deeper the rabbit hole, the sicker it becomes, the more disgust is laced with every action.
Imagine an entire network of powerful grotesque creatures that rule and dominate and have done so in the open for decades and perhaps centuries. Suppose you are a young man skilled at singing with a generational look. We all know that evil cannot create and so they latch onto those that can and like twisted vampires drain the innocence and creative nature of people.
The doctrine of mutually assured destruction and in this case via blackmail is a sure way to bring people under your domain and rule. Feed anyone enough methanfetanmine, viagra and cocaine long enough and everyone fails on a long enough timeline. Now put the same test to a 15 year old. Or 16 or 17 or 18 year old. Surround him with parasites, people like Usher, P Diddy and JayZ. Imagine for a moment the blackmail that's collected.
How long do you think it took to compromise Bieber? A month? A year? These people are sick. How long until hes become the "cum dumpster" for all of them. Everyone has had a turn with him. Imagine living a life everyone seemed to envy; Power, wealth, girls .... name it. But behind closed doors your entire life seems to be one giant humiliation ritual after another. Imagine being witness to how they treat those that go against them. Where trauma is ingested daily, imagine not killing yourself and wanting to be free of sin and shame.
Gun to your head - the most horrific demand imaginable. On camera. Imagine your brother, your mother, your sister, your dad threatened not simply with death but threatened with schadenfreude, something far worse than death and knowing they are 100% capable of carrying out the threat.
Imagine getting a girl pregnant and your abusers talk openly of kidnapping your unborn child, sacrificing it and abusing it, like they did to you, a "second generation cum dumpster". Would you tell her to get an abortion as a perfectly moral pro lifer?
So this is one of those scenarios - gun to your head- what do you do? With a groomed and demented upbringing, everyone you've ever loved being threatened, all you have to do is this one heinous act .... on camera
If these acts which we abhore as a culture are true, humanity will have a very difficult measure to judge, when it comes to defining victim and monster, for in some instances, like Bieber perhaps, the terms are more obfuscated.
My old principal used to say when you point the finger; there's three others pointing back at you. If 99% of men are guilty of watching porn, what % of porn is produced utilizing human trafficking? What level of guilt are we ourselves guilty of? This is a question we must ask ourselves and use when judging others. As a survivor of abuse myself, I have great empathy for victims of SA, but that doesn't obsolve punishment of crimes in the world of man.
The ripple effects of our own sin are massive and unclear and unknown. So when this shit show finally goes off, will there be any cries for mercy? I doubt it, but I hope that we might have plenty of clairvoyance to decide justly the proper course of action.