A lot of our ancestors left places such as France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and more to get away from the societies there, try to start over in the U.S. afresh. And many still are, to state the obvious.
The U.S.A. is in this sense, "superior" as civilization to at least continue to contend with the protections of some degree of public decency. I think most of Europe stopped trying a while ago, certainly Paris and the Netherlands did.
"A lot of our ancestors left places such as France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and more to get away from the societies there"
That's true. But my point is that even with their more open attitudes they don't have the obsession with this whole issue as seriously as America does. It seems counter-intuitive but the discrepancy still exists.
"The U.S.A. is in this sense, "superior" as civilization to at least continue to contend with the protections of some degree of public decency. I think most of Europe stopped trying a while ago, certainly Paris and the Netherlands did."
My point is that they don't have to have registers of sex offenders and such because they don't have near the problem with it that we do. I'm not drawing any specific conclusions here about why that is, I'm just saying that doesn't make any sense to me. I would expect our society to be better in this regard.