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Sunday 30 December 2007

There’s much more that’s wrong with this show. I’m uncomfortable with the idea of creating crimes where there otherwise would be none in the first place. But it gets worse when the zealots at Perverted Justice are the ones doing the baiting. And it seems pretty clear that they’re pressuring men to bite who would otherwise have reservations. They also refuse to turn over the complete transcripts of the chats that led to the stings. I also think there’s an important distinction between men who arrange for with sex post-pubescent girls below the age of consent, and men who prey on young girls and boys who haven’t yet reached sexual maturity. The former is a natural, hard-wired attraction. I agree with laws that put the age of consent at somewhere between 16 and 18, which means I agree that people who break those laws ought to face some sort of penalty. The hard-wired attraction, then, is countered by by the promise of punishment, and hopefully one’s own recognition of the exploitive nature of engaging in sex with someone not psychological or emotionally mature enough to make good decisions about physical relationships. Creepy To Catch a Predator

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