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Originally Posted by Ed
It is a crying shame that such a well intentioned thread has turned into petty bickering.
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Ed my friend.
Maybe my approach could be better put.
But, simply put, I think these sorts of sites are worse than usless. I group them together with those emails you get saying "forward this on to all your mates and you will have a good day". Best case scenario is nothing happens.
This site is worse than that, (IMO), because the user is left thinking, there, ahh, made a difference there, I
did my part.
When they didnt.
They did nothing of the sort. A server incremented an integer variable somewhere. Nothing else happened. No one stopped molesting a kid. No one became more aware about kids being molested.
The idea that now, people need to be reminded that child molestors exist is absurd. There has been a media frenzy and a hysteria so pronounced that BrassEye did a mock special on paedophilia.
There were child molestors under every bed and on every computer in the country. Every priest had to be watched. When I am out playing with kids on the road when i come back from work, I have to make sure everything I do cannot be construed as wierd.
So, yeah, "lighting candles", clicking on a candle gif on your Web browser, come on.
Maybe the post was intentioned well. Maybe those post this email on to all your friends for luck are well intentioned.
It still doesnt mean its not a load of rubbish.