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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Because it's a witch hunt, and I mean that in the full negative connotation. There's a certain aspect of the American psyche where we get caught up in a moral outrage.
Do you recall the mass child sex abuse trials of the late 1980s and early 1990s? The vast majority of the cases turned out to have no basis in fact. Everyone (including cops and prosecutors) got caught up in the hysteria. In a lot of cases, there was no actual evidence and testimony was actually fabricated by the investigators.
And yes, the Salem witch trials and the mass child sex abuse trials did have about the same basis in fact, as well as the same root societal cause.
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The author, Mr Greaves, said something similar. He said that the attitude toward pedophilia was hate-mongering due to political and religeous brain washing.
I think that it is completely unfair and narrow minded to condemn the opinions of others over this topic as nothing more that moralistic witch hunting.
I am actually offended that you have seen fit to minimalize the outrage of concerned people and even suggest it is some type of hysteria.
I am not the sort of person to cry foul then go back about my business. I petitioned for this book to be removed. I wrote to lawyers, reporters, internet safety agencies, and tv stations. I wrote to the author and Amazon.
Why?
Rightly or wrongly, I believe that society benefits from structure and laws. I believe that the rights of children, especially their rights to safety, should hold more weight than the rights of adults. Thousands of children are being raped and/or murdered by pedophiles every day. Right now, while we argue over freedom of speech a child is being raped.
I do not care whether the law says its okay to write or speak whatever vile filth you want. That book is wrong, what it talks about is wrong and I will actively defend my right to live in a world where decency and morals still count for something.