[HPFGU-Movie] Re: POV: Dan, Dakota, and Morality

[Karen]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 5:13 PM, susanbones2003 wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Karen <kchuplis at ...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2006, at 3:37 PM, susanbones2003 wrote:
>>>
>>> Jen interjects:
>>> Steve, I know you didn't mean to, but you sound like you are poo-
>>> pooing the real and deadly crime of child pornography which
> exists in
>>> spades here and most westernized countries. Please don't confuse
> the
>>> current vogue of blaming everything wrong with America
>>> on "fundamentalists and fanactics" with the dedicated people
> working
>>> to end the heart-breaking crime of child pornography.
>>>
>>> Dan obviously wants an acting challenge and I can think of no
> greater
>>> challenge than playing the disturbed boy in Equus. More power to
> him.
>>>
>>> Best to you and yours from just another one of those pathetic
>>> American prudes...
>>> JenD.
>>
>> I disagree. I think he sounded like he was poopooing extremism.
> The
>> example he gave was a good one, I thought.
>>
>> Karen
>>
> Hi Karen,
> To me it sounded as if he were saying that we really spend out time
> on useless witch-hunts, which is not fair. Yes there are times when
> an overzealous prosector goes after someone who's innocent but in the
> main, the fight against child pornography here has many thousand
> times more real bad guys than innocents in the wrong place at the
> wrong time.
> Jen D.
>>>>
>>

Huh. I didn't read it that way at all. Mostly because we are talking  
about 2 kids (1 nearly adult) who are making decisions, along with  
their parents. I just can't equate that to child pornography. I  
thought Steve made a good point that people tend to want to raze an  
entire forest because of the bad trees mixed in. To me his point was  
in trying to get the bad guys, people go into overkill mode and see  
*everything* as a threat or an example of pornography.