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And yet

Posted by qtns2di4 on 2011-November-06 19:20:45 EST, Sunday
In reply to Re: Richard Dawkins is an exception? posted by LOD on 2011-November-06 05:27:00 EST, Sunday

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He only attacked pedophilia in the Church. Probably not so much because of the pedophilia but because he hates religion.

This is a very good example of why go a long way not to attack every claimed offender of every claimed case. Even if the case is true, and even if the perpetrator is a dangerous guy who presents a threat to children and who deserves judicial action for what they have done; diffusion and further diffusion is done not to help any child (and does not help any child), but to help increase and sustain the hysteria. It makes the public see a constant threat where there is none; and it makes the public and legislators more likely to consider and pass new laws that will not help any children but will make them think they do something about largely imaginary or exaggerated threats.

I seriously don't believe all the Church cases were abusive (or even took place). However it is true that some happened and that the Church helped hide them from police. But going over and over again on this issue does not protect any child, incentives false accusations, and is likely to cause either worse laws to be enforced (which will not help any future child either) and to undermine the positive aspects that Church education or extra activities could have had (for example, in segregation rules, no-hug rules, and so on).

Obviously some offenders need to be kept without access to children.

Yet repeating all the cases approvingly only makes it likelier that the net will be cast so wide as to include the guy doing the repeating.




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