lol i wonder how many times they do that and the whole time there talking to a 14 year old boy trying to act older to impress the "14 year old girl" lol
It depends on how they bait them. The way Dateline conducts their investigations is in line with how most Law Enforcement Agencies do it.
Entrapment only counts if the person does something they wouldn't normally do, because the Officer/Investigator encouraged them to do it.
If an Officer is undercover and tells you to smoke weed, that's entrapment. If you just smoke weed around an undercover officer, that's not entrapment.
Dateline doesn't go into chat rooms telling people they're a horny 14 yr-old girl looking for penis. They simply act as a normal innocent kid would and wait for predators to bite. That is completely legal.
The difference is being gay is between two consenting adults. Pedophilia involves children too young to make good decisons about these issues. yes, things have changed, but there's probably a reason for that.
This is where I see the problem in the decisions our society has made.
By your thinking, it is socially acceptable to want to have sex with 10 yr-old boys and girls, as long as the act is not carried out.
Personally, I think you would have to have serious mental problems to want such a thing...and yes I think mental problems applies to the other group as well.
Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. They aren't hurting anybody but themselves.
I'm not saying we should outcast them. But I don't think encouraging their behavior is acceptable either.
Our society has made homosexuality socially acceptable. There is a fine line between not ridiculing someone and encouraging their behavior.
If we treated pedophiles the same way we treat homosexuals, we would tell them there's nothing wrong with fantasizing about a little boy or girl because that's how they were born. Then of course, we would have to have some reality show about pedophilia being okay on MTV or Rosie or whatever.
We don't have to encourage homosexuality, but does that mean we deny them the rights that the rest of us enjoy? Do we treat them differently and discrimante against them? What are you saying we do differently so we stop encouraging homsexuality? Put them in re-orientation camps? lol
I think that where you are off base is by comparing being gay to being a pedophile. Pedophilia preys on children while homosexuality is pretty harmless (IMHO). If being gay is indeed a mental problem just like pedophilia is, then at least its not hurting people.
We could start off by accepting the fact that it's not normal. We know this, but we won't say so. Why? We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings?
You don't seem to get that by giving them the rights of hetero couples, we are in fact encouraging their behavior. I mean, how are they supposed to know what they're doing is not normal if we keep telling them it's okay?
I don't think we should force therapy or re-orientation. But if we could at least make them aware that they are not normal...?
If the "if it doesn't hurt anybody then its ok" doctrine is wrong, then what will we base our laws on?
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