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[Crispin Harris]

Yikes Stil!

Although I guess is _IS_ time to "call a spade another bloody shovel",
and in this case Mr Hamilton & Ms McMenamin have succeeded in using
thier spades to shovel an aweful lot of FUD into the discussion.

Personally, I am very careful to ensure that I continue to think of
these people as ill-directed idealists and not deliberately malicious
miscreants.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:
>     Ms McMenamin, to really stop child abuse we need to spend our
>     resources efficiently. Let's run through it one more time. And
>     let's skip those hysterical, made-up "statistics" you still peddle.
>     Child abuse is bad enough without heading into your paranoid
>     fantasyland.

I have ranted previously about the falacy that is "if only one child
is saved it is all worth it".

We have limited resources, lets use them effectively - and
PROACTIVELY, not retroactively.
If this hurts your pre-conceptions, sensibilities and sense of moral
outrage at someone doing something "naughty", then I am very sorry for
you - and also for all the people that we were NOT able to help
because of your hysteria.

<Slightly embarrased at my unexpected outburst, I quietly step down
from my soap-box>

Yours,
  C

-- 
Crispin Harris
crispin.harris at gmail.com
"Well, you know... most Catholics are so boring, you kind of expect
them to be fairly reasonable and not, say, frothing papal fanboys with
the IQ of a turnip. So he had me fooled. Not any more, though."
Thanks to Eric The FruitBat (etfb.livejournal.com)