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Originally Posted by joblack
As long as it's legal I don't have to like it to accept the global promise of 'freedom of speech'.
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If you watch Dexter it might be an education how to be serial killer. I didn't see that much outrage about these episodes.
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Are you referring to the "free speech" right that would involve the
government not barring you from saying something? Or just the ideal?
As to your point about Dexter, I think that is a desensitized issue. If you turn on your TV any night of the week, your odds are likely 7 in 10 to hit a show about crime or criminal investigation, almost all of which involve murder. The murder-mystery book industry is HUGE. As an aside, in my work, I HATE crime TV shows because they give juries unreasonable expectations about how evidence is actually found and handled. But again, that is a post for another time.
But child abuse, especially of the sexual variety, is a third rail. When I was a prosecutor, I specialized in child abuse cases, so I've seen my fair share. And when dealing with witnesses and victims, one thing has never changed - no one wants to talk about it, mostly because they want to believe it doesn't happen. Then an instruction manual of sorts shows up at a major book retailer and its just more than the common man is ready to deal with. I think sexual child abuse is still so repulsing to the collective moral conscience of the majority of people (politics notwithstanding), that everyone felt the need to shout down this whole situation. Its starting to turn into a "who can be more indignant" contest between "free speech" proponents and "this is reprehinsible" people.