On the Web, Pedophiles Extend Their Reach by battling for "Childrens Rights"

I'm glad you at least would grant a suspected pedophile a trial.

I am not against the death penalty in certain cases, but don't agree that it should be applied to anyone other than murderers or traitors who treachery caused death.

... What he said.

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I think a lot of it is the way that stranger danger and other kinds of paranoia are really overblown in the media. Consider, for instance, online safety. I've always felt with my kids that the best thing I could do was allow them to gradually take responsibility for their own safety online. My daughter had her first myspace in 6th grade. Instead of resisting the lure of technology, I shepherded her online, helped her build her first profile, and was her first friend. I've always been one of her friends, and I review her profile about once a week. I taught her how to set her settings so that strangers couldn't contact her, and when we played online games together, I taught her how to handle people who made her feel uncomfortable (block, report, etc.). She is incredibly competent and responsible online, and has been coding in html and other programs for years now.

But, I know that a lot of people are terrified of myspace and don't allow their kids on it at all. The irony is that the kids are there, anyway, WITHOUT any adult supervision, and behind their parents' backs.

Which is safer?

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How many people in real life have you tormented to the point of near suicide?

And why would you be so proud of this ability?

i dont oppose the death penalty, but i was being sarcastic in that last post
i think they should have a reasonable time to apeal the trial

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Only my ex-husband, and it was well-earned. The near-suicidal part came when he realized he'd be paying financially for his infidelity for the next 15 years.

In hairyonidancer's case, she's had multiple opportunities to knock her nonsense off. She should do so. Instead, she chooses to make all kinds of nasty comments about me and my kids, drawing from long-ago conversations to make totally non sequitur observations.

However, if hairyonidancer is so emotionally unstable that she can be tormented to the point of near suicide on an online message board, she should unplug her computer, put on a strait jacket, and check herself into a local mental health facility.

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"If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let police do it to suspects?" - Jesse Ventura

Exactly. People think they can keep their kids off MySpace or prevent them from having sex by just telling them they can't. But most kids are going to disobey if they really want to do it, so all a parent can really do is offer advice and be available to the kid when they ask for guidance.

That's kind of my thinking. Some of these things are inevitable, so we are either just delaying it, where possible, or arming them with the information they need to make wise choices.

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"If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let police do it to suspects?" - Jesse Ventura

they shouldnt just be telling them "they cant"
that is bad parenting in my opinion
better to explain why they shouldnt

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Obviously you are proud of being a bully and would take no responsibility for any harm you caused someone.

That's sad.

I'm glad I don't know you in real life and can just skip over your posts when they get too creepy.

Or, I'm exaggerating to make a point. You know, they say that loss of the ability to sense sarcasm is an early risk factor for dementia.

Let me ask you, oh moralistic one. Say a woman on a message board made constant references to topical references you'd made to your kids, in a non-sequitur fashion designed to mock you. Brought up conversations you'd had in the past, out of context, to discredit you. Falsified information about your sex life and posted it online, in the middle of conversations you were attempting to have.

And, you knew, in point of fact, that she'd made frequent sexually explicit references to her personal intimate relationships, on a public bulletin board.

How long would you take that shit before you started dishing some back?

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"If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let police do it to suspects?" - Jesse Ventura

And then there is fucktard.

Who wants to give them guns, voting rights, and everything else that adults do.

Of course, his argument is that they should also be able to work to pay for these things while ignoring school. Since you know, he believes that since he purposely flunked out of school, got his GED (which just about anyone can pass), and went to college early makes him a expert on the education system.

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It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it"
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Yup. The "because I said so" method just doesn't work with teens. I think we can most of us remember hearing that at least once in our lives and how frustrating it was.

Indeed. Let's just give them the car keys and a fifth of jack to take driving with them, while we're at it.

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"If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let police do it to suspects?" - Jesse Ventura

You're so arrogant that you do believe people wouldn't find such information. And nobody ever said you were clever, you're clearly not despite the fact you think you are.

I already made the difference between ethics and political philosophy, now go be a good Egoist Anarchist and fight the machine or whatever.

I'm already laughing at your idiocy and have been for a long time. You seem to think that your opinion automatically equals fact. Sorry fucktard, watching every video and reading every book by Singer doesn't make you a genius.

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"We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it"
- Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start The Fire"