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Politicians use fear to terrorize the public into giving them
votes.
The exaggeration makes us believe that we need
the politician and his extremist laws to protect us.
The media is in the business of exaggeration, of hype and terror. Of course sex is the American obsession, so hype about sex and sexual fears are grist for the mill of modern yellow journalism. The best horror stories can be woven around the sexual abuse of children. Child molesters are monsters, vampires, demonic forces! The stories are so ridiculously exaggerated and hyped that parents actually believes that their children are in danger. Last year quite a number of children died.
How dangerous were
the perverts?
Okay, so perverts seldom kill children. It's much more common for adults to be killed in sexual attacks that for children to be killed. A woman who is raped has a fairly high risk of being killed or injured. That's due in part to the very extreme punishments being imposed on rapists. He doesn't want to leave a witness to testify against him, so he kills the victim. As the punishments for molesting children becomes ever more unreasonable, more child victims will be killed for the same reason. Generally, child molesters like children and have no desire to harm them in anyway. If the perverts don't kill the children, do they cause them
serious injury?
In the past year, the statistics are:
In reality, child molesters pose little danger to your child. Your child is in 10,000 times greater danger from you. A little sex probably doesn't really do much harm to anyone, child or adult. But sex is the American obsession, it's sensational and feeds into the neurotic American love/hate fascination with sexuality. Americans love sex, but they think they aren't supposed to like it, that it's wrong, dirty or "sick." The sexual interest in children has always been common and very widely spread. It doesn't seem to have done much harm even in the 1890s when all the major cities of Pennsylvania had whores as young as 8 being sold in the ubiquitous whorehouses. We should not harm our children. We should nourish them. Still, it does no good to exaggerate the dangers of sexual assault. If you really want to keep your daughter safe, keep her out of school. She has a very high likelihood of contracting a serious disease and a good chance of dying from it. If you really want to protect your son form death or injury, keep him away from sports. Baseball is 7000 times more likely to kill him than a pervert.
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