Protecting paedophiles. First the Catholic Church. How can they possibly claim to be Christian when they abuse little children and protect the abusers. Now NSW Education has done the same. Do you think the government should sack and permanently ban from any school, people who subscribe to child pornography sites, or advise parents of their names?

Voterland

Unfortunately with non Christian values (modesty) child abuse will only continue to increase. People that feed on any porn are desensitized to perversion and child molestion.

Repeat child abuses whether they be Catholic Priests or Art teachers should be jailed for life or castrated. That might prevent a few more children having their lives wrecked.

btw I had no knowledege that people could subscribe to child porn sites. Surely the promoters of this filfth should be easily tracked if money passes hands online.

Interesting WA now publish photos of sex offenders who have not fulfilled reporting requirements on a Government website.

<<Do you think the government should sack and permanently ban from any school, people who subscribe to child pornography sites, or advise parents of their names?>>

No: moving a plastic device on one's table, pressing sections of it and other plastic keys, causing bits of magnetic information to move around inside an electronic device within one's own home, does not necessarily indicate that the person doing so is actually inclined to molest real, flesh and blood, children.

Voter land welcome back, first time I saw you I had concerns.
You proved them wrong.
You have introduced some great threads.
I tried this one, under a few different titles, all failed to gather pace.
First,yes I doubt, without Change and soon the Catholic Church can survive.
Not for the Century,s of fostering child molestation alone, but the recent evidence of Corruption in the Vatican too.
We should inform people who down load such we are aware of their actions, but sack them?
No sending them out of sight may be more dangerous.
I however am repelled at Every Church hiding the offenders, even letting them offend again.
Church.s try to control normal sex but seem to hide abnormal sex by the so called non sexual who as can be expected are often tracked to?
The Church.

Paedophilia has a slant that is just as abhorrent as the desire to commit the act.

There is a “power and control” aspect to it that concerns me as much as the physical violation. I have a deep seated set of moral scales on what is fair. Fighters must be equally weighted and somewhat equally skilled, a mob against a loner is wrong, a man against a woman is wrong…and an adult’s physique and psyche against a child’s is the ultimate violation.

About 4% of the population has a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children. It is predominantly a male personality and behaviour disorder. Treatment consists of behavioral modification by attempting to stimulate the patient and redirect their desire towards adults in conjunction with libido controlling pharmaceuticals, chemical castration. None of it works effectively as shown by the recidivism rate.

So up to 4% of priests must be paedophiles, as are 4% of mechanics, computer programmers, baristas, teachers, cops and scout masters. But the number of priests molesting children may be higher given the celibate aspect to Catholicism. A figure of 10% has been recently posted in regard to the modern day church. These violators by opportunity are called “Pseudopaedophiles” and are driven by the sexual gratification aspect, but the preference may not be for prepubescents.

The Catholic church was run by the Medici’s for centuries, they managed to get four Medici popes in. A family that exhibited the seven deadly sins in spades. The Catholic Church has been corrupt since the 12th century. I actually think they have a cleaner more benevolent act than ever before in many aspects, but I consider the religion a corporation from bishop level up.

The first world has evolved too far to set the clock back on porn. The laws in regard to this heinous crime are dramatically lax in Australia. Sometimes I honestly believe that the paedophiles have a friend in the judiciary. The judges see it as open slather on the most vulnerable in our society and statistically 4% of them have a preference for children.

"So up to 4% of priests must be paedophiles, as are 4% of mechanics, computer programmers, baristas, teachers, cops and scout masters"

I don't think that logic works. It's likely that paedophiles will be drawn to occupations or roles that give them easier access to children. You'd expect that the rates amongst priests, teachers and scout masters would be higher than in jobs and roles with little or no access to children (ignoring the effect that blue cards etc might of removing known paedophiles from some areas).

Whilst it's off topic for this thread "Fighters must be equally weighted and somewhat equally skilled, a mob against a loner is wrong, a man against a woman is wrong" - not really the way the world works.

Any time the government takes sides with an opponent the fight is unequal. I've suffered enough at the hands of bullies who were both smaller and weaker than me hiding behind the protection that gives to be a little sceptical of it in practice. If it is valid should those more verbally skilled restrain themselves in an argument with someone a little more plain spoken?

R0bert