Re: Depends on what you mean by 'accepted'

The youth lib stuff is feel-good politics for CLers, but it is a slow poison in this tainted environment. It isn't good for anyone, least of all us. No matter how right MAPs may be on some of these points, we live in the era of Fox News. Truth is irrelevant in this post 9/11 atmosphere; what matters is what people believe, and if they are convinced you're only out to rape their kids, no amount of logic or evidence will persuade them.

Ah, but we can't pander our arguments to appeal to those who have already shut us out.

I believed in human rights before I was aware that I was a Ped.

Any version of Human Rights which exclude an arbitrary class are necessarily tortured, unjust and inconsistent. Backing up the excluders has always initially sided one with the majority. But there are reasons why the only arguments cited and advanced in civil society are the inclusive ones; and its not just because the majority now conveniently agree on all but Youth-Rights.

You are right on one point. This doesn't advance a Pedo-agenda. It only advances the entire species.

But every advance for a particular group has been an advancement for all.

Too many bitter Pedos argue that in order to gain acceptance Gays became defacto Straights. But I see the gay marriage thing as the tail-end of a success story which benefits those who prefer monogamy. It doesn't, and it certainly didn't in the past, require marriage to make gays presentable. In fact, its only the acceptance of single homosexuals which has paved the way for those who want to marry to be working on this.

We will not gain acceptance by trying to create a Pedo-pseudo-Norman-Rockwell image. We will gain acceptance when;

1 ) They all realize that a loved one is a Ped
and
2 ) They realize that tolerating Peds creates no threat to them or theirs.

Advancing a pro-Youth Rights stance has nothing to do with Pedophiles; its merely a prerequisite for being a real human being.

Dante