This morning, I removed two images from [[Childlove]], an article about pedophilia. One was a brochure put out by a group called CLogo, which is devoted to promoting the "mutually beneficial" possibilities of pedophilia. It showed a doll (at first I thought it was a young girl), sitting on someone's lap. The other was a magazine cover by Martijn, a Dutch group, showing a young, shirtless, preadolescent boy.
Frankly, I am quite disgusted by this abuse of our NPOV policy.
Danny
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
This morning, I removed two images from [[Childlove]]
Thanks for announcing it, so someone can revert it ;-)
Frankly, I am quite disgusted by this abuse of our NPOV policy.
So now wanting to represent a POV is abuse of the NPOV policy? That's interesting.
I haven't participated in this discussion so far because this is a very sensitive subject, and because I didn't know much about it until recently. This discussion got me interested, and I read some of the stuff that was linked to in order to inform myself of the pedophiles' point of view. It is a very radical point of view, and one that is quite contrary to that of society at large, but that only makes it all the more important for us to include it. Someone mentioned early in this discussion that it would be dangerous for us to make the impression that we are somehow endorsing pedophilia, but at the same time, censoring this POV would be endorsing society's aversion, which (apparently) pedophiles perceive as discrimination and prejudice.
I therefore strongly suggest we keep images that document this POV (as long as they don't break any laws, of course).
Timwi
Yes, however morally repugnant we and most of the world might find this, stating that there are some people who hold this POV and linking to material that they produce is NPOV. It is not acceptable to pretend that such people do not exist. We must, of course, put this in the context of the general feeling in society that this is reprehensible. Mark
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Yes, however morally repugnant we and most of the world might find this, stating that there are some people who hold this POV and linking to material that they produce is NPOV. It is not acceptable to pretend that such people do not exist. We must, of course, put this in the context of the general feeling in society that this is reprehensible. Mark
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