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Old 11-12-2010, 09:35 PM   #340
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
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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.
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Worldwalker, for the record, I wasn't sure if any of your post was directed toward mine or not - I too was answering bits and pieces of a few.

Also, I went back and found a terribly constructed sentence of mine that I have since edited:

I had written, without the italicized words, and the first one was "anti-pedophilia":
"Yet for every complaint about "emotional appeals" from one side, there are emotional appeals in the form of "freedom of speech" from the other side."

Which was and still is a chopped-up, nonsensical word salad. My point was about the appeals - i still can't think of an elegant way to describe who's saying what.

I had gotten a call, got in a hurry to finish, and ...

But for the record, I promise i don't think the only people who are anti-pedophilia are those who wanted Amazon to remove it.

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