Yeah you're right, I'm off this for the night, trying to explain to someone why child predators are bad and being met with apologist babble about law inequity is making me wanna put my head through the computer screen lol
I will just say briefly though for the "theres no real victim" crowd - the past couple years that these bigger channels have been operating these stings something they've been doing is taking over real conversations between predators and children, so like maybe the parents contact them after finding it in their child's phone or computer or sometimes it's the child themselves reaching out, so yeah just wanted to point out as well that it's not even always a decoy, sometimes a real minor is involved and these groups take over pre existing convos and go from there.