Comments on: The Dobbs Wire: Pushback against fear-mongering — 'stranger danger' https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-dobbs-wire-pushback-against-fear-mongering-stranger-danger/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Fri, 30 Dec 2016 12:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Karen https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-dobbs-wire-pushback-against-fear-mongering-stranger-danger/comment-page-1/#comment-4999 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 12:22:13 +0000 http://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=5574#comment-4999 There are just no words….I am torn in some ways. Although this is absolutely horrifying it may also be something that brings to light to shameful way our country is beginning to base laws on emotion and not facts. Sometimes it takes the masses to be vilified in order for them to see the light. Remember “… and then they came for me…” One thing that always causes a knee-jerk reaction for me though is the use of the word pedophile. It has become a word used as being interchangeable with child abuser and that is just not true. Pedophile does not equal child molester and likewise child molester does not equal pedophile. Although highly unacceptable in our society a pedophile is a clinical description for someone whose sexual preference and attraction is based on pre-pubescent children. Many true pedophiles never act on those desires. Likewise, most child molesters are not true pedophiles but instead people who commit their crime triggered by other life conditions or opportunities. In many ways, this misuse of the word pedophile is similar to back in the day when there was a belief that all homosexuals were also child molesters. I love, love, love Free Range kids but I do wish they would gently correct the users that use the word in the wrong fashion. Ok I got out my rant…

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