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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 04:59 AM
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"To Catch A Predator" And Other Stings...
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I will preface my remarks by saying the show is voyeuristic and designed to titillate but the men I saw televised and arrested on that show all arrived at their intended destination with the intent to have sex with a minor...

That is just wrong... As a liberal I do I have empathy for anybody in distress but my empathy is tempered by one's complicity in their own distress and if a person set up an assignation to have sex with a child they are responsible for creating their own distress...


If you want to be outraged, be outraged at the garden variety prostitution stings that occur in just about every city in the United States...An adult soliciting an another adult for sex is infinitely more innocuous than a grown man soliciting a child for sex but if they are apprehended in a sting they are subject to the same public humiliation...
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