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Kind of like how we break a lot of our legal system to "fight child pornography". Yes, they're both bad things, but fighting them cannot come at the cost of bre
by jxf 14y ago
Kind of like how we break a lot of our legal system to "fight child pornography". Yes, they're both bad things, but fighting them cannot come at the cost of breaking otherwise perfectly legitimate and functional endeavors.
- speeder 14y agoThis might be also lots of overreaction. I've met two very intelligent women (That don't know each other) that for most things have very reasonable opinions. But throw "child abuse" and it is like telling a robot to hide in a corner in a round room, they just break and if they could they would pass laws about instantly killing suspects of child abuse. When I try to argue with them of how "x" or "y" is bad idea because of its side effects, they always reply: "I don't care, EVERYTHING is worth doing to protect children." And then I understand why so much politicians use "for the children" rhetoric when they want something.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoMaybe they're compensating for not having children they want to have or not spending enough time with their own children. They redirect their frustration by wanting to punish "child abusers" when the source of this fictional abuse is in their head. I guess that's what happen. The room is round, but their upbringing tells them to stand in a corner.
- ceejayoz 14y agoMaybe they're space aliens, while we're wildly speculating.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoDo you prefer "they're stupid and dangerous" answer? Because it's either this or that.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoOr perhaps they were abused as children. Or know someone who was. Or they were afraid of all the big adults when they were children. Or. Or. Or. There's lots of other possibilities.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThat's not less of a speculation.
- ceejayoz 14y agoWell, that's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one. I prefer "well intentioned but misguided", "worked up by a sensationalist media that obscures the fact that kids are safer than in the 'idyllic' 1950s", etc. theories.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago"well intentioned but misguided" equals "stupid and dangerous" once you shave off the bullshit. At least in this case. It's a textbook case, exactly like the one in South Park Uncut.
- gbog 14y agoYou're wrong but I upvoted your comment.