Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 06:00 AM 12/25/2007, Will Beback wrote:
Countless topics have engaged POV fighters. This
topic is worth
attention because of the maturity and tenaciousness of its proponents.
Those of us who've been around a while remember various clumsy efforts
to distort WP articles by special-interest groups, like the neo-Nazi
StormFront crew, etc. Pedophilia is similar but different due to the
sophistication of the POV editors.
It takes uninterested editors to balance the material. Please be among them.
I'll try. But I'm not "uninterested." I have a policy of
not editing
articles where I have no interest at all in the subject, because I'm,
then, quite likely to not understand the topic.
Though we may have different POVs
on the subject, disinterest will be
enough to keep me away. Having such uninterested people work on these
articles is commendable in theory, but most of us have plenty of other
interests. We would see these topics as bottomless sinkholes of wasted
time.
I have a POV, but I
use my POV to detect bias. I'm disinterested in the sense that I
value the project more than any POV, including my own.
I have some experience with counseling pedophiles, though only those
who got caught. So I know the people, in a few cases, behind that
mask and label. And I also know a few of those who suffered from
contact with them.
The problem here is not just that they are pedophiles, but that
they
want to boast about it to a large audience. My impression of most
pedophiles is that they do not want their activities made public.
Ec