Comment Re:Let me rephrase that (Score 1) 576
Religious people can't be moral.
Religious people can't be moral.
The bible makes sense? Sure it does. And so does the Koran, so they say. In fact, pretty much any ridiculous belief has a ton of supporters.
Never anyone reputable though. I mean, look at the people who say that - idiots who say things like "
I know you get brownie points for trying to convince people of the existence of the sky fairy, and most-importantly you feel like it validates your belief, but it's crap. The book, the teachings, and the institutionalized ignorance required for faith.
Because of the nature of ego I'm sure this post will just drive you to your chosen delusion with more fervor but hopefully it helps someone on the fence decide to investigate more, and with non-cult sources, before ruining their life with it.
You mean on an iPad? I can always tell the Apple Haters,
No, he means any tablet.
In your world there are only two classes of people
1) Those who think that all tablet devices are iPads and all touchscreen phones are iPhones.
2) Apple haters.
Yeah, Western government pay more lip service to justice.
95%+ of police officers in Toronto took their badge numbers off when kettling and illegally arresting protesters. Despite the extreme number of infractions not a single police officer, RCMP or local, recalls seeing ANYONE without their identification.
This was done specifically so that charges couldn't be laid and sure enough police have been found not guilty for reason of lack of evidence in many beatings, not because nobody beat the person, but because no officer is willing to rat on the rest and they all appear identical in black riot gear. (Amazingly, just like the Black Bloc, who they condemn.)
I think we should have a sting and throw every police officer who refuses to rat on a fellow officer in jail till they die of old age.
If they sold it to someone they should have known would use it for illegal purposes, yes.
It's legal to sell your car. It's not legal to provide the vehicle for someone who's told you they're going to drive over someone - even if the sale would otherwise be legal.
It's obvious that doing anything with a dictator only legitimizes and enables the dictatorship. So yeah, if Cisco sold equipment to Syria, even if that equipment wasn't for censoring, they would be at least partly to blame for censoring in Syria.
Lobbying for favorable laws opens up markets, and part of getting favorable laws is doing whatever you're asked. So to get those #1 customers they'll do anything, even provide them a cut-rate service by allowing warrantless wiretapping, etc.
And they'll bow to whatever special interest makes it more profitable to deal than fight, from government to church groups.
There's no risk for the companies that do this. If someone was discovered to be in the KKK they might get beaten or killed, but build a product that allows Syria to make prisoners and slaves of its people and you're an A#1 citizen.
Following the law needs to be a minimum standard, not a free pass.
No we don't. We get to elect people but I've never been asked by a politician what I want them to do and they few I've offered my opinion to have ignored it.
In an open market I wouldn't pay them a penny. Here they cost millions and we can't get rid of them when we catch them lying.
Heh. Thanks.
It was covered as part of a sports coaching course.The course was mainly health and safety. Part of health and safety obviously covered coaching children, and it was part of the taught material we were given. Not pornography, obviously, but general paeodphilic behaviour.
The paragon of higher education - a government info session about something the media is in a tither about. That's as likely to be useful as Reefer Madness is to depict reality.
You're arguing from a less-informed position than someone starting fresh.
I claimed that removing child porn from the hands of paedos was important to breaking the cycle of low self-esteem. You claim it isn't important(?) - or..well I'm not sure. You don't seem to be claiming much by way of counterpoint.
You parroted, you mean.
What I claim is that arresting people who molest children will change the molestation statistics. Assholes like you making up and spreading legends about pedos and kiddy porn, etc, is just confusing the issue and drowning out useful discussion. Most molestation of children isn't done by people with a specific kid-fixation, they're opportunistic rapists.
And porn isn't the problem, people who rape are the problem.
Perhaps you just wanted to argue a bit more? In which case, that's fine by me, argue away, but please don't expect a response.
Since you're taking requests, how about you stuff a sock in it until you realize how little you know. Your 'break the cycle' nonsense is harmful. Yes, it's sick but it's also almost totally uncorrelated to actual abuses.
It must be tough being quite as rude and dismissive as you are, because you'll never learn anything by yourself, and no one will want to teach you anything.
There's another reason you don't have much to offer. But it's not my rudeness. And thanks, but I can read the source material myself without your teaching.
Well, only the ridiculous and useless laws.
Thing is, allowing paedos to watch their sicko porn only makes their "condition" worse.
Oh, and how do you know this? Hung out with enough pedos? You know, it's incredibly rare - if you meet any/many you may be attracting them by your behavior.
It's a known vicious circle as their low self-esteem only makes them watch more of it.
No, that's the standard rant about porn in general. It'll drive men to not want real women, etc. Never with any evidence.
Also, Penn and Teller were not talking about child porn consumption so it is a slightly different thing!
Of course not, child porn is illegal so there are no numbers. But it's no more likely to be different than the same.
The point is to sort the paedos out so they aren't fantasising about kids. Breaking the cycle involves removing the porn.
Idiot. Kids were being abused a long time before there were suggestive photos of them. Breaking the cycle doesn't involve cameras, it's far deeper with basic attitudes toward children as property.
I've seen people who wouldn't believe their fence was down. And people who won't believe their information security systems are broken.
In both cases you have to grab someone by the nose and make them look before their cows (metaphorical or otherwise) eat your (likewise, metaphorical if appropriate) garden.
The researcher probably can't countersue to be paid for pointing out this vulnerability, but it's a shame. One bogus lawsuit deserves to be answered with a bigger one.
You certainly shouldn't feel they've been hurt or harmed in any way. That's sort of how rape is treated in religious communities - like the victim is now forever damaged, and that's the most harmful thing you could do to them - "you're irrevocably broken, but not in a way *you* can see".
Let's say someone laid their video camera on the ground while at the beach, playing a game, and your daughter wandered by and sat, pantless, in front of their video camera for a while. What part of her has been hurt? Where is the injury?
So then they take it home and discover the video - and one of them likes it and masturbates to it furiously. Still, where is the injury? What possible mechanism is there by which this could harm your daughter?
And, if you're going to talk about someone posting the photos, that's only damaging because family and friends would feel shamed by it and inflict that on the child.
So no, no damage is done if someone takes pictures of your kids naked (excepting any force or coercion used to take the photo, etc). That's just ridiculous.
Your child is just as good today as yesterday, regardless of the pervert. When we all act like this not only will we have a more open society where less abuse will happen, but we won't shame the victims into suffering in silence.
You'd make a lousy neighbor. I've spent much of this year literally testing our neighbors' fences (and our own) - destructively even - kicking at posts as hard as I can, etc, to find even signs of weakness. Then we trade lists of weak spots with them and cooperate on fixing the fence.
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