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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
What a mess. When I first saw this, I thought of posting a comment or two. But decided not to.
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But then, again, decided to post?
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* Child protection -
- - I see very little of that in society. Oh there are laws, but they're for prosecuting after the fact. They don't do much protecting.
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Thank goodness, we live in Roman Law countries. That means, you cannot judge someone just for their views - only for their deeds. As long as there is no "the fact", no deed is done and there is nothing to judge. And, if you want to jail pedophiles before they try to commit the offence, how would you decide who is to be jailed and who is not?
And there is a child protection in terms of securing childs instead of jailing potential pedophiles. You can e.g. do not let your children go outside. Or you can explain them why they should not talk with or even come close to the strangers.
Also, i'm sorry that there are so many pedophiles victims in this thread; i do not, in any way, depreciate or underestimate your pain; but i want to say that maybe your state has something to do with it.
Here in Russia we also have freedom of speech. Although there is a registry of banned books, it is about half of thousand items long, it contains mainly political items such as Mein Kampf, and really there is no control over spreading these forbidden materials over the internet (said Mein Kampf could easily be downloaded in lib.ru, which is sponsored by Federal Press and Mass Communications Agency -
prooflink). However, i believe that pedophilia crimes are of much lower scale here. For example, i just cannot imagine that such a thread on some thematic russian forum (unless said forum is devoted to the victims) could gather so many victims. It is really incredibly.
PS: Oh, and, by the way, child pornography is prohibited in Russia. But, as far as i know, it is forbidden not because it could turn some pedophile on a way of active pedophilia (conversely, there is an opinion that child pornography will gave pedophiles what they want without having them to doing something bad with actual children), but just because children actors were sexual abused during the filming.