These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

And the perpetrators think this is justice.

It isn’t the medical definition at work, here. It’s the legal one.

Ding ding ding.

Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

It’s a bottomless well, really.

Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

That wasn’t quite it. The church believed the natural sciences fit within a framework of metaphysical doctrine. The church engaged in all sorts of research and experiments because they believed it would prove the truth. People like Darwin and Copernicus and such were all commissioned by the church to develop and research their work.

What happened was there became a growing body of work that did not align with the church that could not be reconciled. They did the science, they were just subject to the demands of political power of their time.

Someone read the book.