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renie408 · 03-09-2007, 05:59 PM

There are a whole lot of things I don't care about. In fact, I would not categorize myself as any kind of crusader. But I do think that the formation of some judgements is not wrong. I also do not think that accepting that EVERYTHING, no matter how aberrant or heinous, plays a valuable part in this world is responsible or logical.

I don't think people who hold stupid opinions are BAD. I think you are probably being intentionally blind and may also suffer from cognitive dissonance. But that is just MY subjective reality, so I guess you are safe to stay in your own where you think the rape and murder of children is a useful element to your world and where they brought it on themselves. I just can't live there. I have to live somewhere where we make an effort to condemn certain behaviors and work against them (note: I said 'BEHAVIORS'. We can love the sinner while hating the sin. Actually, I can't. I would happily club to death the guy who killed Jessica Lundsford, but at least I recognize that is something I need to try to grow out of) and where we don't 'blame' the victims of violence and natural disasters for attracting those things to themselves.

BTW...whose 'job' would it be if it isn't yours? And mine? And my neighbors? And your neighbors? Why do we have to 'stomp out' horrible things like child molestation? Why can't we start acting as responsible people and vote for people who would target the things that lead molesters to molest? Why can't we, until we can get the world to be a better place, just start calling a spade a spade and say, "Gee, murdering kids is undesirable. We need to do what we can to stop that."? Instead of blowing off the discussion by saying that the victims attract these things, why don't we say, "You know, if we work to identify at risk kids and get them into treatment, we have a chance of stopping this cycle of violence." And then vote for people who will do this?

03-09-2007, 05:59 PM	#47 (permalink)
renie408 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 293	There are a whole lot of things I don't care about. In fact, I would not categorize myself as any kind of crusader. But I do think that the formation of some judgements is not wrong. I also do not think that accepting that EVERYTHING, no matter how aberrant or heinous, plays a valuable part in this world is responsible or logical. I don't think people who hold stupid opinions are BAD. I think you are probably being intentionally blind and may also suffer from cognitive dissonance. But that is just MY subjective reality, so I guess you are safe to stay in your own where you think the rape and murder of children is a useful element to your world and where they brought it on themselves. I just can't live there. I have to live somewhere where we make an effort to condemn certain behaviors and work against them (note: I said 'BEHAVIORS'. We can love the sinner while hating the sin. Actually, I can't. I would happily club to death the guy who killed Jessica Lundsford, but at least I recognize that is something I need to try to grow out of) and where we don't 'blame' the victims of violence and natural disasters for attracting those things to themselves. BTW...whose 'job' would it be if it isn't yours? And mine? And my neighbors? And your neighbors? Why do we have to 'stomp out' horrible things like child molestation? Why can't we start acting as responsible people and vote for people who would target the things that lead molesters to molest? Why can't we, until we can get the world to be a better place, just start calling a spade a spade and say, "Gee, murdering kids is undesirable. We need to do what we can to stop that."? Instead of blowing off the discussion by saying that the victims attract these things, why don't we say, "You know, if we work to identify at risk kids and get them into treatment, we have a chance of stopping this cycle of violence." And then vote for people who will do this? Last edited by renie408; 03-09-2007 at 06:07 PM.