Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
Today's headlines offer up a doozie of a question: Should Amazon be free to sell the book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure," a how-to e-manual to help pedophiles indulge their sexual predilections "more safely" and with an eye toward lighter sentencing should they ultimately be caught.
Am I the only one who sometimes scans the news and then has to shake my head vigorously and look again to see if I read it right?
Fortunately, responding to consumers' outrage, it appears Amazon already has determined their profit margin on this $4.79 e-book isn't worth offending the thousands of folks who threatened to boycott the retailer should the title remain in its kindle offerings. Yay, free market solution.
Clearly, the First Amendment guarantees Amazon the right to sell any morally corrupt book they choose to list (to wit: they still carry "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers.") Hopefully, though, pulling the pedophile title is an example of "just because you may sell something doesn't mean you should."
But just to make the conversation more interesting (and because my guest week is almost up, so I'm thinking I can toss this out there and quietly sneak out of the room...), does anyone else think perhaps the pedophile guide and the boylover book and the general sexual saturation of our culture -- especially involving children -- is part of the larger socialist movement to normalize formerly unacceptable sexual behaviors, thus further eroding the traditional family, the social unit upon which all free societies must depend for survival?
Woops! Look at the time... must go fold some laundry...
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Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
I'm really tempted by totalitarianism right now. The temptation is so great that I think I need to call my sponsor.
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
I wonder, though, about all of those people who clicked on the link, just to see what all the shouting is about. What's going to show up next time, when they go to Amazon, in the "Recommended For You" box? Or the "People Who Looked At This Also Looked At..." selections.
Jun '10
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Marybeth Hicks: "Does anyone else think perhaps the pedophile guide and the boylover book and the general sexual saturation of our culture -- especially involving children -- is part of the larger socialist movement to normalize formerly unacceptable sexual behaviors, thus further eroding the traditional family, the social unit upon which all free societies must depend for survival?"
When "tolerance" boils down to sacrificing innocents for a political agenda it becomes evil. This is part of what you get when culture embraces godless hedonism above all else. Now excuse me while I clean the spittle off my keyboard.
Aug '10
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Kinsey lives !
You bet it's part of a witting or unwitting campaign to do exactly what you guessed. Ask Kevin Jennings.
Aug '10
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What about the Google trackers ? What kind of ads will they be seeing for the next couple of days ? Fisher-Price ?
On the other hand, my 14 yr old daughter thinks this is pretty funny and she's right.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15S0g8pG6HU
This youtube has had ten million views. That's alot of eyeballs.
May '10
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
I'd be in favor of Amazon selling "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure" so long as the site suggested "The Pedophile Hater's Guide to Pedophiles' Addresses" to everyone who viewed the page.
May '10
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Marybeth Hicks: "Does anyone else think perhaps the pedophile guide and the boylover book and the general sexual saturation of our culture -- especially involving children -- is part of the larger socialist movement to normalize formerly unacceptable sexual behaviors, thus further eroding the traditional family, the social unit upon which all free societies must depend for survival?"
In short, yes. At the risk of sounding paranoid...
Also, I love Jason Hart's idea. The free market at work, eh?
May '10
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Proud to note this has never been recommended to me. I may commit random assassinations just to keep in practice, but the only thing Recommended for Me is a package to that Potter place at Universal Studios. Oh, and Peter keeps making ads for toilets show up on the sidebar.
Don't slink away, Marybeth! Is it that late?
Nov '10
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So first the "Shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theatre" argument comes up while discussing the limits of free speech, and now we've graduated to "Throwing a grenade into the parlor to see who falls on it."
May '10
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
I never see a Google ad. Firefox with Adblock Plus? Priceless!
Jun '10
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Yes, Amazon probably has the right to sell this disgusting book. It also has the right to disgust thousands of its customers. Finally, it has the right to decide not to exercise its right in the interest of decency and customer relationships. Just because I have the right to say something doesn't mean I am required to say it.
Aug '10
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EJHill
I never see a Google ad. Firefox with Adblock Plus? Priceless! · Nov 11 at 10:46am
Google trackers are bought by vendors to target you. I buy some clothes from Filson or look at their catalog too much. Pretty soon I am noticing that the ads on Powerline, Lucianne, etc. are mostly featuring Filson. At first, I thought it was good that some of my favorite stores are advertising more, then I figured it out and the tracking cookies. Logarithms are pretty flexible. That the ads are not universal, but that it's just me and others who are interested. Now how's that for creepy ? Additionally creepy is the concept that the bloggers who own the site mostly don't know what is being advertised on their site at any given time.
Now let's go to photoshopping Sean Penn's head onto something seemingly alien......well, maybe something unlike him.
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
Blakes7th
So first the "Shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theatre" argument comes up while discussing the limits of free speech, and now we've graduated to "Throwing a grenade into the parlor to see who falls on it." · Nov 11 at 10:41am
Actually, I was assuming that this conversation would (intentionally) pick up where my first one (unintentionally) left off, that being, the subjects of gay marriage and teaching about sexuality and gender identity to young children. Perhaps I was obtuse to the point of timidity, but I believe there is a political connection between the creepers who want to make pedophilia and pederasty acceptable sexual practices, and the goal of socialism in America. Evolving "sexual mores" are a tool to destroy the traditional family, which is essential to socialism. It's no wonder, then, that the UN and Planned Parenthood International promote the sexual rights of children, which include that children should be taught "the pleasures of sex."
Jul '10
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
Prediction - A new theory will soon be offered, that will quickly assume the mantle of an unequivocal truth:
Pedophiles are born that way - it's not a choice.
Sep '10
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I'd say it's due to the perception of very (!) broad social liberalism in combination with the recognition that online shopping platforms offer relative anonymity to the customer that companies like Amazon put up this stuff.
Sep '10
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Socialism's underlying intellectual pedigry is a materialist philosophy that assumes human nature is not fixed and infinitely malleable to allow endless social engineering in the direction of unlimited license with taboos being seen as vestiges of primitive and unsophisticated beliefs.
So far, anytime a conservative has suggested that an unthinkable transgression in social mores is about to be transcended through some as yet undisclosed emanating penumbra of the vicitude of the travelling pants they are tut tutted into silence.
Sep '10
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
John Davey: Prediction - A new theory will soon be offered, that will quickly assume the mantle of an unequivocal truth:
Pedophiles are born that way - it's not a choice. · Nov 11 at 12:20pm
In an interview, the author did use the phrase, "pedosexual." So, are there necrosexuals and beastialsexuals as well. And from a standpoint of logic, is there a reason to say some preferences are inborn and others are not?
Jun '10
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The tendency to sin is inborn, but the gift of self-control is given to fight it. Self-denial is victory, not failure.
Jul '10
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And then we will find ourselves reading about the great bane: pedophobia. Can anyone still recall when the law was for protection of the people?
May '10
Re: Assuming pedophiles need instruction in the first place...
Preach it, Sister!