Let's see... My original question was, "if the children said they are harmed then why don't you believe them?" Your answer sounds very much like it isn't that you don't believe them, but that the harm is discounted because it's society's fault.
Yet the original question posed was whether children are harmed or not, not whose fault it was.
But this was obviously a response to that question. derefr suggested that when someone asks the child about the abuse, it's asked in such a way that the child remembers it as abusive. This isn't a statement about society, but about why the child's memory is not necessarily reliable.
What do you believe that most people on this site don't?
I'm especially looking for things that you wouldn't even mention if someone wasn't explicitly asking for them. Stuff you're not even comfortable writing under your own name. Making a one-shot account here is very easy, go ahead and do that if you don't want to tarnish your image.
I think a big problem with a "community" dedicated to being less wrong is that it will make people more concerned about APPEARING less wrong. The biggest part of my intellectual journey so far has been the acquisition of new and startling knowledge, and that knowledge doesn't seem likely to turn up here in the conditions that currently exist.
So please, tell me the crazy things you're otherwise afraid to say. I want to know them, because they might be true.