Maybe you should do what I have managed to do, until now: ignore it.
But my feelings about this is that the effects of false accusations
are underestimated. They can really ruin someone's life.
First, I think of the fact that I lived next to Oppenheimer´s widow
in 1968, and think of what harm was done with all the false
accusations regarding communists and traitors in the McCarthy
periode. It really ruined a lot of people, even if they were proven
innocent.
Second, I think about once when I was about 20. Some idiot in the
boy scouts where I was a leader had some odd ideas resulting in the
accusation that ALL of us were nazis. Of course I survived, but it
made me think.
Third, only because it was the most recent, was three years ago when
a mad neighbor accused my wife for child abuse and claimed that she
had reported it. Yes, we believe she spread some rumors, some
neighbors stopped greeting us for a while, but it is back to normal
again now.
So, the question is: How many innocent do we want to sacrifice to get
the bad guys? The innocents have children too, and they get hurt too.
Now I´ll keep trying to ignore this thread.
DagT
Den 11. jan. 2006 kl. 22.01 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This thread is making me incredibly angry.
As a feminist is hard to resist ranting about people having their
heads in
the sand.
Or make some comments about mcps. Or something similar.
Again, people seem to want to identify with the wrongly accused
instead of
with the thousands and thousands of actual victims. People seem to
want to dig
out the few times sometimes is accused wrongly, instead of digging
out stories
of actual victims.
I find this thread turned on its head and wonder why.
I have zero tolerance for pediophilia and zero tolerance for any
kind of
sexual abuse. It happens, it's real. It's not all innocent people
wrongly accused.
And most of it is perpetrated by people the attacked child/adult
knows. Read
the statistics in the url I posted.
My former best friend (of 14 years) was an incest survivor that had
been
abused by her father since the age of five. My mother's former hair
dresser
daughter disappeared. A stranger abduction, raped and murdered.
I am so flipping angry I am now immediately unsubscribing for a
while. To
avoid ranting, because I am here for photography and I don't need
the grieve of
ranting and arguing.
Heads in the sand. All I can figure.
Later, Marnie
