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Don't forget the nascent "Great Firewall of Australia": in order to protect those children whose parents do not supervise them in accordance with the will of the majority, all people's access to the Internet will be restricted and monitored. But it doesn't matter that adults have to deal with hidden and secret restrictions at a national level, apparently, because it's "for the children".
With regard to the earlier question of how the police can protect the sicko at the heart of this, but not protect children, it's simple: You can watch him. But how do you watch every single kid whose parent, step-parent, uncle, or family friend is doing things in silence and demanding the silence of the child? You can watch Chester the Molester if he lives down the street, but not if the kids call him Grandpa.
They don't need books to tell them how. They've been doing this as long as there have been people. Sex is, after all, pretty much hard-wired into everything more complicated than an amoeba. Ironically, the one effect a book like this might have is making it easier to convict such a person. If a jury is only hearing Uncle Chester's word against Joey's, which isn't uncommon in this kind of case, and then the prosecutor shows the books they found under Uncle Chester's bed, this being one of them, there's some evidence that isn't one person's word against another. They're more likely to convict when there's something -- like a book on how to be a pedophile -- in front of them.
I'm in a bit of a hurry at the moment, so I can't respond to various posts individually, and there are a couple that I need to. One thing, though, for anyone who misunderstood: my last long-winded post was not a reply to any one person specifically, nor to any one post. It was an attempt at summing up the general feelings I'm seeing on both sides of the discussion, and explaining what my position is.
One thing: I do feel rather irate at the side I'm not on being described as the "anti-pedophilia" side, as if my side were the "pro-pedophilia" side. I think everyone in MobileRead is anti-pedophilia, and if they're not, I'd like to violate a few forum rules in their general direction. The disagreement is not over whether pedophilia is wrong, sick, disgusting, and should be suppressed. It's over what is the best way to do it, whether certain actions will do it or not, and what other effects those actions might have. I think we all need to keep that in mind.
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