Would you tell on your kid's friends

Boomer, there is no escaping the fact
that if the kid gets attacked and beaten again for looking at porn,
u will have been complicit in that assault and its consequent injuries.
His suffering will be directly attributable to your decision to inform on him.

Whether the victim eventually opts for vengeance against Mo
or your household (now or in the future) for causing his injuries, only remains to be seen.

David

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@ebrown p,

That's basically an ad hominem argument. You don't like the source, so you choose to disregard the study.

Try bringing more to the table than just your uninformed opinion that exposure to pornography isn't worrisome.

On the other hand, I have the opinion of two professionals about how early exposure to pornography can be psychologically damaging.

I assure you, your opinion holds little sway with me.

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@ebrown p,

ebrown p wrote:

I am merely suggesting overreacting to grossly exaggerated risks is unwarranted (and possibly counterproductive).

Of course, "overreaction" is by definition a poor response.

Who is suggesting overreacting? Advising the parents of what happened can hardly be considered overreacting.

That "overreaction" is purely in your head, and a complete strawman argument.

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@DrewDad,

You are attacking my reason for rejecting the article... saying that because the source is a right-wing political organization that is also homophobic isn't a reason to be suspicious of their reasoning.

The interesting question is why you accepted the article as fact? Seeing as you are generally not the homophobic social conservative type, it seems likely that you Googled the article, skimmed it for one or two minutes to make sure it agreed with your point of view, and then posted it without much thought.

You are the one claiming there is research to back up your prejudice. I think the burden is on you to find some research from a credible source.

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

ebrown p wrote:
I am merely suggesting overreacting to grossly exaggerated risks is unwarranted (and possibly counterproductive).

Of course, "overreaction" is by definition a poor response.

Who is suggesting overreacting?
Advising the parents of what happened can hardly be considered overreacting.

That is truely deranged; u think its enuf if u just HOPE
that the victim will survive the next beating.

That 's easy for U to say.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

So you would withhold information based on your fears?

Advising the parents is not overreacting.

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@ebrown p,

ebrown p wrote:

You are the one claiming there is research to back up your prejudice. I think the burden is on you to find some research from a credible source.

Based on your reaction, here, I suspect there is no source you would consider credible enough.

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

So you would withhold information based on your fears?

Of course. The idea is to keep the poor kid alive and intact.
Re-iterating, u only HOPE that he will still be alive when thay decide to stop the beating. That 's easy for YOU to say.

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Advising the parents is not overreacting.

It IS because the parents are known to be violent.

Its not as if thay were just going to have a pleasant exchange of opinions with mutual respect.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

No, they are rumored to violent.

I do generally hope that my neighbor's kids will survive the day, though.

Especially ebrown's kids, since he seems singularly blase.

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

Quote:
No, they are rumored to violent.
That fact, by itself, is sufficient to motivate caution in a person of reasonable prudence.
The idea is very simple: it is NOT to get some innocent person
killed or mutilated for no reason.
Q.E.D.: mind your own business and don't get anyone killed or maimed.

Quote:
I do generally hope that my neighbor's kids will survive the day, though.
That 's not good enuf. U have no way of knowing how badly he will have been injured before the attacking parents opt to stop. People have perished from beatings that thay suffered several days prior.

No good comes from informing the violent parents.

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"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.",

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@ebrown p,

That's just crazy talk. Why bother trying to catch anybody that careless ... especially when there is a UConn/Colgate men's basketball game to catch tonight at 21:00 hours (EST) ... Listen streaming live on the online radio ... http://www.wtic.com/

Of course, you might feel compelled to catch the inevitable fallen from the Colgate team. This game is going to be a lopsided blowout victory for the Huskies!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/clubhouse?teamId=41

http://www.flagsrus.org/images/n/59020.jpg

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

That's just crazy talk. Why bother trying to catch anybody that careless ...
especially when there is a UConn/Colgate men's basketball game to catch tonight at 21:00 hours (EST) ...
Listen streaming live on the online radio ... http://www.wtic.com/

Of course, you might feel compelled to catch the inevitable fallen from the Colgate team.

This game is going to be a lopsided blowout victory for the Huskies!

If u know that to be a fact,
then Y bother with it? What difference does it make ?

David

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@ebrown p,

You've dispensed Dr. Spock and Dr. Sears and get all of your parenting advice from novels, now, eh?

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@OmSigDAVID,

Point well made. Smile

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

I think porn is really the secondary issue here, with the primary issue being hacking into someone's computer -- against explicit instructions -- to get at the porn. That ain't cool.

You're right; this is definitely an issue that goes beyond just the exposure to porn.

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@ebrown p,

ebrown p wrote:

Quote:
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.",

What is your point ?

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

sozobe wrote:
I think porn is really the secondary issue here, with the primary issue being hacking into someone's computer -- against explicit instructions -- to get at the porn. That ain't cool.

You're right; this is definitely an issue that goes beyond just the exposure to porn.

Of course; it goes to the issue of danger from parental violence.

Thay did not damage the computer.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Well, I suppose the only logical way to resolve the conundrum is for Boomerang to provide the little guy with a revolver prior to letting the parents know about the porn.

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

Well, I suppose the only logical way to resolve the conundrum
is for Boomerang to provide the little guy with a revolver prior to letting the parents know about the porn.

OK; as long as he does not turn his back on them.

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