Attention, all paedophiles !..
Attention-grabbing headline, no ? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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The only ones who wish to debate the subject are ones who at the very least wish to have sex with minor adolescents.
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I should probably express my own personal position about the subject but I get the feeling that this would degenerate into a "loyalty test" : i.e. before we are allowed to discuss something, we must give assurance that we are against it! But this puts a damper on discussions about "sensitive" or "controversial" issues.
And defeats the objectives of curious minds. I would very much like to be able to discuss a few things with, say, Adolph Eichmann. I would not require that he sign some kind of apologetic note before we do.
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It is not a matter of "political debate" but of basic human decency towards children.
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It is more than that. May I invoke Spinoza again? "Not to laugh, not to cry, not to get angry. But to understand."
I believe that we owe it to ourselves to try to understand the inner workings of the human beast.
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