Posted on 09/10/2013 6:52:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Richard Dawkins is sensitive to shifting mores regarding pedophilia:
Dawkins went on to say that one of his former school masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts,” and that to condemn this “mild touching up” as sexual abuse today would somehow be unfair.
“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he said.
I would say Dawkins is living proof that pedophilia does cause harm.
In the effort to be urbane and nuanced and to see the world in muted shades of gray, guys like Dawkins have no lines at all. But why would he? The lines are blurry because each person has his own set of lines. There are no agreed upon moral truths, there’s simply circumstances that have individual contexts that must be viewed through subjective lenses.
This subjectivity and lack of standards is how society comes unraveled.
It appears the Lord has given Dawkins over to his madness.
Wow. There’s a shocker.
Does the left ever think of anything other than their sexual perversions? These idiots are the lowest of low and less evolved than animals.
Obviously Mr. Dawkins didn’t pay attention when today’s liberals denounced our Founding Fathers for not following today’s politically correct standards.
Moral Relativism only works geographically and never temporally if the people in question are white....
I’m as confused by this article as Dawkins is about pedophiles.
He says he can’t criticize mild caning which is punishing a kid with a stick whipping
But the personal story he defends is a guy putting his hand in his pants. Big difference.
I figured you’d appreciate this news story...
While I agree with him that we should not judge past actions by today’s standards .... if you mess with my kids you disappear ... if you had messed with my dad’s kids, you would have disappeared ... if you had messed with either of my grandfather’s kids, you would have disappeared ....
I hope he commits mild suicide....
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I’m far from being a kid, but if this perv put his hand on my leg he’d draw back a nub.
That's not the part that needs to go.
I read this story. Very good. Sums up what’s wrong with half or more of our inhabitants.
Explains a lot actually.
“For each word or phrase in the left column, enter the VERY FIRST word or phrase that comes to your mind in the right column of the same line.”
mmm... okay. Let’s get on with it.
“Richard Dawkins” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Teeth” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Knees” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Gonads” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Ribs” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
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I disagree - I'm a traditionalist.
I prefer the "crack" of a wooden bat, over the "tink" of an aluminum bat.
>> I prefer the “crack” of a wooden bat, over the “tink” of an aluminum bat.
Why can’t we have both?
Dawkins is spiritually dead. A cistern without living water. His conscience is stunted and befouled and his powers of reasoning disordered. He’s a moral imbecile who uses his disordered intellect to argue for evil.
I figured you'd appreciate his remarks.
“As long as she’s 13 and you only get her a little pregnant...” ~ Roman Polanski
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