"Mark Wagner" carnildo@gmail.com wrote in message news:31073ef90602071549v22ddf451w3e14def1dfe1f540@mail.gmail.com... On 2/7/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
While I agree with the general point, slippery slope arguments are usually pretty weak.
The problem is that the step from "admitted pedophiles" to "pedophiles" has already been taken, and from there, it's a *very* small step to "accused pedophiles", an illustrious group that includes Ta bu shi da yu, Schissel, and Lucky 6.9, all named by "Parents for the Online Safety of Children", Jtdirl, Gmaxwell, and me, all named by Jeff Merkey, and no doubt others.
I was labelled a "pedophile" by well-known Usenet-kook John Grubor about 10 years ago; you can look it up in newsgroup archives easily enough. It was his favourite method of attacking anybody who stumbled into his line of fire, and is practically a badge of honour (not so much a Purple Heart as a Vaguely Lilac Heart :-).
This is not the sort of thing I want to be slung about like slurry outside the town hall[1]...it would not, for example, have been easy to explain to non-technical Social Workers when we adopted our daughter.
The fact remains: I have been accused thereof, it's verifiable: what if somebody decides it would be a good idea to paste it into my User Page?