Man Time Forgot said:
I have no idea what urges you are talking about that encourages men to chain up women.
That is either ignorance or denial. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the various sex industries. The sex industries seem to thrive on enslavement and fantasies about it more and more. The potential is a human one.
I also cannot think of any inborn "evil tendencies" either.
When pockets of humanity the world over spontaneously makes the same evil choices, its time to consider that the tendencies are inborn. Its not just something in the tea.
Some people are born with a predisposition towards psychopathy, but that is not the same as being born with a predisposition towards evil. There are plenty of high function psychopaths out there that lead perfectly acceptable civil lives.
We are talking about sex industries, their clients and people in general -- not psychotics. I'm not talking about 'Evil', which is too broad a subject. People have many latent and unexplored desires, some of which appear to manifest when they are clients in the sex industries. Look at the direction that porn is going, and consider the fact that where there are sex industries there is enslavement. I'm talking about the natural tendencies people have the world over to control and seduce, to own and to manipulate. They don't have to be psychotic to have those tendencies.
The impetus to do harm for harm's sake or because the person in question possesses no attributable moral compass is found in roughly 15% of the population
I heard it was 10%, but harm for harm's sake is not what I'm talking about.
we cannot and should not make our decisions solely based on what a functional minority would do with it.
I do not suggest making decisions solely based on that, so I agree with you on that.
Perhaps you find it likely that things like alcohol (which leads to drunken driving and can contribute to spousal abuse) and tobacco (which kills millions each year) can and should be criminalized "for our own good?" Prohibition and black markets pretty often do far more harm than what normal people are willing to partake in. There is a big difference between Slapstick comedy and Snuff Films; notice that Slapstick is available for widespread consumption whereas most people simply want nothing to do with Snuff Films (not that they secretly desire to watch them, but rather they can't bothered to watch such things).
No, but some people have superstitiously attributed such behaviors to alcohol or to demons or something in the water. What they attribute to demons I recognize as a trend in sex industries, though not exclusively in sex industries.
Why is it where you find prostitution you also find sexual slavery? Its rather simple. It is far easier to take your ill-gotten sex slaves and place them into a seedy independent brothel than it is to place them within whatever country you got them in where prostitution is ostensibly illegal. A government regulated and inspected brothel is very different than most independent brothels and a far cry from the black market options.
Your one possible explanation is a guess that doesn't take into account the potentials in men and women, particularly the excitement of slavery. There is a pleasure in it, and where there is pleasure there is something to tempt everyone not just psychotics. You assume that enslavement appears due to the presence of psychotic individuals and that brothels are merely convenient for them.
Long story short: The evils that humans do are usually a function of a very small minority who genuinely care enough about something in order to act on it. Most people simply can't be bothered to take up an issue as that would involve a great deal of effort, and I refuse to be characterized based on the lack of emotional/moral development of a minority.
Pardon but I'm not speaking of your character but of the similarities you share with all people everywhere. We all share a lot in common. Character is what you do with what you have.