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To: general_re
But, what I am interested in doing is discussing the consequences of where your train of thought is eventually headed. So, when you're having your coffee tomorrow morning, consider this - if the book causes a person who otherwise would not have molested a child to go out and molest a child, and thereby causes an act to happen that never would have happened had the book not existed, isn't the book - and more specifically, its author, publisher, and/or seller - then entirely responsible for that particular act of molestation?

I'm still here, general_re. The answer is no. The person who committed the dastardly act is obviously also responsible. C'mon, you can't be so dense. Consider a situation where kids find a known bully and dare him to break some other kid's nose. The bully wouldn't have done it by himself, but he's predisposed to that sort of thing. The other kids press him and needle him, and tell him he's afraid, and that he won't get into trouble, etc. etc. In the end, an innocent kid's nose is broken. They're all complicit in a despicable act. Jeff NAMBLA Bezos is actively marketing a book which promotes child rape. He's like the kids exhorting the bully to do something bad. He's helping to encourage a vicious and disgusting crime. If you were standing with your son at the public square, and someone got up and started to exhort the men around you to rape teenage boys, you'd be outraged. Bezos is helping to exhort perverted men who may be around my sons (and whose identities I don't know) to do the same. He's a virtual child molestor. This IS an exceedinly immoral act. And he may well bring about the molestation of some teenage boys. Bezos is a rich and powerful man. He has no morals when he does this. NAMBLA = Bezos.

94 posted on 09/26/2002 6:55:33 PM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
I'm still here, general_re. The answer is no. The person who committed the dastardly act is obviously also responsible. C'mon, you can't be so dense.

Easy there, cowboy - if I seem dense, I'm just trying to lay all the cards on the table. ;)

Okay, then. The perpetrator is partly responsible, and the person who egged him on is partly responsible, since the act wouldn't have taken place without the book, right?

95 posted on 09/26/2002 7:06:46 PM PDT by general_re
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