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jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) wrote:
>The point I'm trying to make is that our current society tends to discourage
>interactions between men and any children.

<Robert.Reimiller@quest-net.com> wrote:
>In fact, I consider it far too dangerous to be around children. It
>appears to take no real evidence of at all to acuse someone of child
>abuse to have it ruin your life. The state will spend all sorts of
>taxpayers money to hire psychologists to convice the child that
>something happened under the guise of protecting the children.
>As usual, the ultimate winners are the attorneys.

Oddly enough, what you said reminded me of the movie "The Killing Fields"
(which I saw with my family on video over X-mas.)  Pol Pot gained control
of Cambodia and was trying to remove all non-Cambodian influences.  This
meant that all even partially educated people were killed and the children
were given special authority "because they weren't polluted by past contacts
with Western ideas; they were pure Cambodians."  There were quite a few
scenes where a kid was randoming pointing at adults in a concentration camp
only to have the fingered adults be beaten and die by suffocation with lite
blue plastic baggies over their heads.

I also remember a short article in the Boston Globe about a year ago where a
male substitute teacher was accused by multiple children of sexually abusing
them only to later find out that an 11-year-old was paying each kid a few
dollars "to get Mr. <name unremembered> because he was a hard teacher they
didn't like."  (The guy was innocent.)

With the missing children mass hysteria added, as an adult male, it's best to
completely ignore and/or avoid any interaction with any kids not your own.

I wonder what kind of society we're creating here sometimes....

  - John

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