(Theodore Sypnier)A 100-year-old child molester was released from his halfway house this past weekend. Here's an excerpt from the AP article of five days ago by Carolyn Thompson:
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Everything that pedophile Theodore Sypnier has to show for his 100 years on Earth is packed in a single duffel bag as he prepares to begin a new chapter in life: freedom.
New York's oldest registered sex offender is scheduled to move by week's end out of a Buffalo halfway house for released inmates and into a place of his own, after completing his latest term in state prison for molesting little girls.
The judge who sentenced him said at the time that she expected him to die behind bars.
But 10 years after his last arrest, as Sypnier prepared to shed the closely monitored lifestyle of the halfway house, its director warned that the spry and active Sypnier has not changed. "Whether he's 100 or 101 or 105, the same person that was committing these crimes 10, 25, 30 years ago still exists today and has an unrepentant heart," said the Rev. Terry King, director of Grace House, which has twice taken Sypnier in from prison. "He is someone that we as parents, as members of the community, any community, really need to fear."
(It sounds as if the judge's prediction may still come true: he will die behind bars, for his next crime.)
Six months after marking his 100th birthday in the Groveland Correctional Facility — becoming the first New York inmate to reach the milestone while incarcerated -- the retired telephone company worker now says he wants to get to know the youngest members of a family that has disowned him.
(Retired telephone company worker? Wasn't AT&T's former ad campaign "Reach out and touch someone"?)
A former daughter-in-law said he is not likely to get the chance.
"No one from the family plans to have any contact with him," Diane Sypnier said before ending a brief phone interview.
Being grandfatherly was how the 5-foot-5, 150-pound Sypnier found his victims, authorities say. After his most recent arrest at age 90 on charges of raping and sodomizing a 4-year-old girl and her 7-year-old sister, his neighbors in the suburb of Tonawanda recalled what appeared to be a kindly Sypnier offering rides to adults, handing out money to children so they could buy candy, and baby-sitting.
It's often the people who appear the warmest at first who are in fact sociopaths, who have a knack for great first impressions.
A ninety year old rapist? I wonder if he took Viagra before these encounters.
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Well while you don't believe this, a commonly held belief in Asia why bad guys seem to get away with it and have good luck is that their evil is so great that their bad kamma cannot suffice to affect them in this life, that they will fall into hell until it is exhausted only then can they be reborn and leave hell. The little good they do is rewarded to them in the current life.
A decent person will suffer for the little bad they have done in this life and in some cases the good they do cannot sufficiently come to fruition in the current lifetime. So many saints will suffer, but it is minuscule to what is to come.
But the ultimate goal is to escape kamma good and bad, and no longer be reborn, which does not mean a cessation of existence. It cannot be described as you cannot describe red or blue to a colorblind person, the Buddha said nibbana can only be said as what it is not, not what it is. It is not suffering, fear, futility, or exhaustion. It is not etc.
Anyway, whatever you believe, but life is not fair, what's stopping us from trying out damndest best to make it more fair? Obviously we need to stop criminals and help the unfortunate. People like to shrug it off, and okay it is true baddies get away while innocent people are hurt, but we should continue to try to minimize that and ensure social justice (the classic definition, not related to SJWs).
Note my frustration with this is not because there is injustice or from some obsession with rigid morality, I can't stand anyone who is such a prude or high and mighty like anyone else, or a SJW.
It's the annoying attitude people have of trying to sound stoic or deep when they utter "life is not fair" while just sitting on their asses.. It's just very very annoying, it doesn make me outraged like some SJW type. It just feels sooooo annoying to hear it over and over.
Simirarily, with my experience with sociopaths (I've been fortunate to not be involved with one, it's limited to running into them on the internet or maybe a few people I've bumped into I didn't know much about) is feeling incredibly annoyed or irritated. Not strong personal hate, I can't exactly hate them as they don't seem like there is someone to hate. Like I don't hate cockroaches, they just are freaking bugs. The few people I have had any urges of hate towards are like some of those neurodiversity people on forums. I know they aren't evil child molesters or whatever, but they have too much humanity for me to not care, and they have indirectly affected my life with their beliefs, and I hate their beliefs so much. Their stupid hipster hair, their...yeah you already know. I know I shouldn't feel that way, and I have felt ashamed about it too.
There was one guy who I believe was a sociopath in highschool, but I hated him more for how everyone liked him so much despite how harmful he was and the damage he was doing to people's lives. If everyone knew he was a sociopath and didn't fawn over him, I would feel indifference. It's more I hated the idea he was getting away so much with what he was doing.
The sociopaths on the internet particularly just make me so pissed I want to humiliate them in a verbal argument, but I don't since I know I will never win, or worse I will be manipulated. Wonder what that says about my personality? Am I that petty heh? Should I feel more moral or whatever about it? Aren't autists supposed to be stupidly obsessed with morality or principles? I think I used to be and maybe still am, but that is more to do with powerlessness or imbalance. Hard to explain.
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Ga --
I too feel resentment against sociopaths with a public reputation for goodness, and a surprising number of them have that. They often have little mini-personality cults around them. And when they talk about how good they are in various way, people actually believe them. It's sort of infuriating.
The other reaction, against the self-satisfied hypocrisy of others, is fairly universal. And the typical SJW is a perfect example of that.
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