"Mark Wagner" <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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On 2/7/06, Ilya N. <ilyanep(a)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?
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
[1] traditional form of protest employed by disgrunlted UK farmers :-)