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Subject: TOS update

tammymc opened this issue on Mar 01, 2004 ยท 134 posts


Ratteler posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 3:53 PM

"Hate to disallusion any of you whom do not agree, but some thoughts are just not acceptable as being 'normal' on the human front..." That is quite possibly the scariest statment I've ever heard. You can't even evaluate right and wrong if you can't think of "wrong". And who decides "NORMAL"? A few thousand years ago it was normal to take your first born to tample and watch a "preist" jab a dagger into their heart. Everyone did it and if you protested you weren't "NORMAL". In some countries a person reaches the "Age of Consent" at 13. Pretty sick my personal book, but "NORMAL" there. If we can't even reach a world wide agreement on "normal", how do you expect enforce your version of it. Even if it was possible to wipe out every image of child pornography, you won't end the cause. You'll just drive the afflicted into hiding making them harder to weed out. You're effectivly training every child sexual preditor on stealth. How do you think so many of them ended up as Catholic Preists? I say give them something that causes no one harm, and let them identify them selves by going after it. You don't get rid of "abnormaility" by trying to hide it. If anything, Zero tolerance to this level will cause people who MIGHT have gotten help to NOT to. In the mean team time, you're crippled any artist/storyteller from even creating cautionary tales that might give children a real advantage at avoiding these preditors, because the very subject matter is taboo. It a formular that can ONLY result in making super preditors and the perfect victums for them.