Where did my FIH go??

By Link the Writer · Jun 29, 2010 · 568 · 3
  1. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-mike-thomas-edwin-arrest-062710-20100626,0,2748890,full.column

    This link is to a news site about a man being arrested for getting a three-year-old girl off of a busy street.

    Although the charges were, thankfully dropped, it just sickens me how paranoid we've gotten now about children.

    Yes, there are bad men out there that really do want to hurt the children, but c'mon, society! Learn to grow some common sense!

    Oh, and this isn't the first time its happened. I've heard of teachers being fired for hugging their female student (possibly because they were upset or injured and this was a teacher for a very, very early gradeschool).

    I can only wonder what it was like years before paranoia gripped the country. It's funny how times changed. Had something like this happened just fifty years ago, the witnesses and/or the law enforcers would be praising him as a hero of the hour. Maybe his name is on the front papers "Man saves girl from being struck by car".

    Now, you can't even look at a kid without risking someone saying you're a pedophile.

    I mean, god forbids a man decides to have the human decency to run out into busy traffic and get the child out of potential danger.

    It may have detered some people from helping a child, but if I see a child in the middle of the road and in clear danger, I'm going in there and getting him/her out of it.

    It's called being a human being with decency.

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  1. Cogito
    All I can say is I'm glad people are sensitive to the threat posed by pedophiles. There are a huge number of them out there, and they are ruthless.

    Yes, there will occasionally be overreactions. And it did get resolved. I've no doubt he will be properly appreciated when the dust settles.
    Cogito, Jun 30, 2010
  2. Banzai
    To be honest, I'd probably disagree with you Cog. I think that the danger of paedophiles has been vastly overhyped by the media, and what Link is talking about is a symptom of this.

    No one would deny that there are horrible and disgusting people in the world, and that they should be imprisoned for their crimes. But paedophiles aren't lurking around every corner waiting to snatch children. That's just media-induced paranoia.

    And whilst being on guard is good, when it's punishing people who are just being selfless and helping others, it's gone too far.
    Banzai, Jul 4, 2010
  3. Banzai
    To be honest, I'd probably disagree with you Cog. I think that the danger of paedophiles has been vastly overhyped by the media, and what Link is talking about is a symptom of this.

    No one would deny that there are horrible and disgusting people in the world, and that they should be imprisoned for their crimes. But paedophiles aren't lurking around every corner waiting to snatch children. That's just media-induced paranoia.

    And whilst being on guard is good, when it's punishing people who are just being selfless and helping others, it's gone too far.
    Banzai, Jul 4, 2010
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