HorhayAtAMD said:
My sincerest apologies GotZoom, I goofed in that particular statement.

<-- Horhay with egg on his face.
Let's take your statement a little further though and see if it has the same "oomph". A disproportionate amount of pedophiles are men (straight or otherwise). Doesn't that mean that there is something wrong with men as a whole? Shouldn't we, as LuvRPgrl suggests, take a long hard look at anything that promotes men?
My argument all along (earlier goof not withstanding) is that you can't use statistics from one side of a relationship to make assumptions about the other side. If it is true that a disproportionate number of pedophiles are homosexuals, what does it tell us about homosexuality as a whole? Since the same statistic holds true about pedophiles and men, what does it tell us about men as a whole? Personally, all it means to me is that homosexuals (and men) are not a homogoneous unit that can be generalized. I wouldn't imagine that most of you would be thrilled if NOW started posting billboards saying "MOST PEDOPHILES ARE MEN therefore men are sick".
You have some valid points.
I think its funny how Clay and you both misread, (and understandably so, I started blinking and re reading myself

) some of the somewhat confusing statements involved, yet a few others want to continue to lambast on it. Those two idiots should just let that thing die.
Anyways, I havent been in this thread in a while, and am still catching up.
Regarding the stats, it all depends. What is important is that we use them properly.
While on one hand, what you say is true, it is also not good to totally disregard such stats.
For example, if Groups A and B both commit pedophilia, and we know that 1,000 acts are commited annually, and that Group A commits 75% of them, group B 25%, lets say we also know group B is only 500 in numbers, (for simplicity sake, lets say each act is done by one person, and ONLY done once), then we know HALF of group B commits such an act.
On the other hand, if group B's population is 10000,000, then the percentages would be less significant.
Im not drawing any conclusions one way or the other, Im also not saying lets imprison all homos, Im just clarifying that SOMETIMES the stats you want to dispose of as "useless" are in fact useful.