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Re: Before You Buy Anything Else From Amazon, Read This...

Post by redunderthebed » Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:24 pm

Personally I think any book promoting pedophilia should be banned and the author prosecuted.

It's not censorship its dealing with a vile and insidious crime that ruins peoples lives.

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Post by devogue » Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:31 pm

redunderthebed wrote:Personally I think any book promoting pedophilia should be banned and the author prosecuted.

It's not censorship its merely dealing with a vile and insidious crime that ruins peoples lives.
I sympathise entirely with what you are saying but consider this: in Ireland there are people who are willing to beat, shoot, bomb, injure and murder their way to a United Ireland - a great many people, including myself, think that their actions are vile and they certainly ruin people's lives.

While acknowledging that the actions outlined above should be illegal do we then ban any literature, scribblings, internet posts etc by the very small minority who support and celebrate such actions?

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Post by lordpasternack » Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:54 pm

redunderthebed wrote:Personally I think any book promoting pedophilia should be banned and the author prosecuted.

It's not censorship its dealing with a vile and insidious crime that ruins peoples lives.
Sexual abuse has the potential to ruin lives. I hold that sexual activity is NEVER abusive just in and of itself: It is the coercion, manipulation, threats and perhaps actual physical violence that make it abusive. And it is these things that make it abusive irrespective of the age or species or anything else of the victim.

If a sexual activity is carried out in a way that doesn't have any tangible traces of abusiveness, I can't see how it would ruin lives, or why anyone being seen to promote that kind of ethos should be demonised. On the other hand, kids
- especially younger kids - are so naive and impressionable that it would be virtually impossible to glean whether an (ongoing) interaction was abusive in any way or not - even maybe unintentionally on the older party's part. Hence - can of worms…

But please don't buy into the ludicrous notion that kids are inherently asexual and sexual activity Inherentlt bad for them and "dirty" till they reach a certain age. This is bollocks, I assure you. I was quite aware of my sexuality at least by age 6. My nephew is already flagrantly a latent heterosexual. I have him on video telling ME to take my clothes off, and making idle remarks about how he prefers females to males. I didn't strip for him. I'm just not going there! He can go explore his sexuality through other avenues...
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Post by GreyICE » Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:40 pm

redunderthebed wrote:Personally I think any book promoting pedophilia should be banned and the author prosecuted.

It's not censorship its dealing with a vile and insidious crime that ruins peoples lives.
Ah, writing words is a crime now.

Yes, that would be exactly censorship.
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Post by maiforpeace » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:31 pm

GreyICE wrote:
redunderthebed wrote:Personally I think any book promoting pedophilia should be banned and the author prosecuted.

It's not censorship its dealing with a vile and insidious crime that ruins peoples lives.
Ah, writing words is a crime now.

Yes, that would be exactly censorship.
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Post by stripes4 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:35 pm

Can I carry on using Amazon just until I've bought the whole adrian mole series? My son is rather enjoying them.
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Post by Sælir » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:35 pm

stripes4 wrote:Can I carry on using Amazon just until I've bought the whole adrian mole series? My son is rather enjoying them.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:40 pm

Shouldn't it be more honestly titled "The Pedophile's Guide to Rape and Pleasure: a Child-rapist's Code of Conduct"

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Post by stripes4 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:42 pm

Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:
stripes4 wrote:Can I carry on using Amazon just until I've bought the whole adrian mole series? My son is rather enjoying them.
Nope, you can´t :brood:
Okay. Sorry. :sighsm:
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Post by Animavore » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:42 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:Shouldn't it be more honestly titled "The Pedophile's Guide to Rape and Pleasure: a Child-rapist's Code of Conduct"
We have to be PC :mod:
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Post by Sælir » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:43 pm

stripes4 wrote:
Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:
stripes4 wrote:Can I carry on using Amazon just until I've bought the whole adrian mole series? My son is rather enjoying them.
Nope, you can´t :brood:
Okay. Sorry. :sighsm:
It´s ok :console:
You just didn´t know any better :nono:
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Post by stripes4 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:44 pm

Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:
stripes4 wrote:
Sælir eru einfaldir wrote:
stripes4 wrote:Can I carry on using Amazon just until I've bought the whole adrian mole series? My son is rather enjoying them.
Nope, you can´t :brood:
Okay. Sorry. :sighsm:
It´s ok :console:
You just didn´t know any better :nono:
I may carry on using them and just not mention it though... :shifty:
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Post by Animavore » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:45 pm

Well as long as you don't mention it.
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Post by Animavore » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:46 pm

Does this mean we have to remove the Rationalia/Amazon donation link, thingy, which I can't find.
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Post by Animavore » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:47 pm

Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.

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