Funny you should mention him. I also had him in mind when writing the original post. I still remember seeing a program on tv about his crimes. Anyway the point I was trying to make is that even though we know on some level that X whether murder, molestation, etc. can happen in our own neighborhoods we still expect it to be someone else who is affected by it. We don't expect x to happen to us even though we know it could. It's part of being human I think. We think of the world as being safe even though it isn't really.
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Originally Posted by penartur
Of course, i don't think that "it can't happen here". I'm staggered not by such things happening in other countries, but by the scale, by amount of these events. While i agree that there could be a child prostitution in Russia, it is certainly not 50k in moscow. While i agree there are a pedophiles in Russia ( Chikatilo immediately comes to mind), i highly doubt that there is so many victims. Certainly not enough for some books-related forum to has several of these among the limited number of its most active users. |