tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15425064.post1145559959361920215..comments2024-03-27T07:59:00.786+00:00Comments on Lewy Land: Reply to a Facebook NoteZeroGravitashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255633322319663191noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15425064.post-36337015068963428742008-06-17T12:37:00.000+01:002008-06-17T12:37:00.000+01:00I think you're right to be careful about defining ...I think you're right to be careful about defining terms. "paedosexual" is probably a loaded term (although what isn't?) but there's a whole world of difference between someone who's sexually attracted to a certain group of people - be it children or whoever - and someone who is a predatory rapist targeting said group. This is no more acceptable when the targets are adults than when they are children, but we are all so emotionally invested in our young for obvious biological and social reasons we tend to react in a particularly extreme manner to anything involving them. <BR/><BR/>As I said in a reply to Jo's comment, the concern for me is that laws such as this are in effect criminalising a pattern of thought. It can be reduced to "We don't like X so thinking X should be a crime" There's all sorts of shit that goes on in this world that I don't like, but as long as I'm not actively being harmed by it, and neither was anyone else involved in it, then I don't see that my offended sensibilities are anywhere near enough to justify outlawing something. <BR/><BR/>It would concern me less if law set less store by 'precident', but as it is once one law has been passed that says "This kind of thinking is a crime, regardless of actions taken as a consequence." then there's a precident for another to pass in the future that's more likely to affect a minority group that I am a member of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com