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IgorKane
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Re: This Completely Misses The Point!
The argument holds water because at this point in time we have drawn a relatively arbitrary line of using somewhat extreme measures to protect children from one type of crime but not others (a TV was an example. If your children are sleeping at home or are watching it, do you think they don't have a chance of becoming victims in this situation?). You try to remove ambiguity by offering to list the offense. Good on the surface, terrible when we talk about privacy, especially when we come to a situation where any offense is "statutory" - offense against the law, not directly against an individual. Why would anyone consider stripping people of their privacy and dignity for a minor offense that would be irrelevant in a State with a different statute on the books is beyond me.
It is the government's responsiblity to protect the privacy of its citizens by filtering out certain offenses. You cannot err on the side of "more information" because we believe in privacy (therefore the answer "Simple" doesn't really cut it). This goes back to the whole "liberty/ temporary security" discussion that is very hard to argue with. States that filter by level of offense have it mostly right.
I say mostly because I think that as a society we have a bigger problem that cannot really be solved this way - this is reactive, and not preventive. Ultimately every criminal would have to be listed, because the argument of "protecting the family" can be taken to any extreme and is also hard to argue against. But no knee-jerk reaction has ever solved anyone's problems, only has put off the resposibility of dealing with it. | |
mglunt
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Someone simply convicted of burglery isn't a child molester until they molest a child. If they are inside watching TV, then odds are the parents are in the house as well. ...and I wouldn't stand around waiting for the Police if something was happening to my child. Buglery and child molestation are not even close to being in the same category. Short of murder etc, molestation is the worst thing that could happen to a child.
The list has its faults, like the statutory situation, but fix that... don't remove the lists.
As far as I am concerned, the minute someone molests a child, his right to privacy on that matter goes out the window. I'd rather be armed with the information I need than be in the dark because you don't want to offend a child molester.
When you have kids, here is what I want you to do. Check out the list for your state, and move to the area with the highest concentration of sex offenders. Move in right next door to one of them. What? Doesn't sound like a good idea to you? Wouldn't put your family at risk like that? My point exactly. | |
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