@themilkman @matrix It makes sense, doesn't it?

@Jens_Rasmussen @themilkman @matrix
it's good enough to me that redditors are coming up with justifications to not constantly mentally prepare to rape kids.
but there are several "aging like fine wine" jokes here and I don't like that.
also, degeneracy warning sign: Dexter gets a rapist sequel.

@apropos @matrix @Jens_Rasmussen dexter?

idk if it's better or worse if you got mental gymnastics with this bro.

we need to throw these fuckers in a vat boiling shit is all i say

@themilkman @apropos @matrix As I read it, the mental gymnastics seem pretty simple. "Young people think they are invincible" is a commonly observed thing, and for some sadistic perverts "and showing them that it is not true turns me on" is the follow up that comes up in their heads.

@Jens_Rasmussen @apropos @matrix that's not mental gymnastics.
mental gymnastics is when you do something stupid and retarded/evil and then you try to cope by saying "but it's a good thing actually"

@themilkman @apropos @matrix Mental gymnastics is just "explaining reasoning [for something]".
The implication behind the expression being that the reasoning being explained is complex when there is a much simpler truth available.

@Jens_Rasmussen @themilkman @matrix
weak-brained person: wow I can't believe you went through SO MUCH EFFORT to think that. My falsehood was much simpler.

terms like this are seeded into the popular imagination by the secret elders of the estate of the Arthur Conan Doyle, to discourage new competitors to the Sherlock Holmes franchise, in the same way that farmers spray farms to kill weeds that would compete with crops.