necoandjeff wrote:
> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
>>Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I appreciate the fact that your own personal moral outrage
>>>>regarding the behavior of those out on the left coast may be a
>>>>higher priority for you than several hundred living children
>>>>currently in need of a home in your own state, but would you care
>>>>to compare the number of heretofore unprosecutable cases of
>>>>necrophilia in California (let's not include those who have sex
>>>>with people they have just killed, since those people are already
>>>>subject to prosecution and fairly harsh penalties, which means
>>>>we're basically left with the odd rogue morgue employee) ...
>>>
>>>We've been down this path before. Still, I wonder about the "odd
>>>rogue morgue employee" argument. I would hazard a guess that the same
>>>self-sorting principles that cause pockets of pedophilia would mean
>>>that the incidence of necrophilia in morgue employees is
>>>dramatically higher than in the general population.
>>
>>When I was a high school student there was an upperclassman who had a
>>part time job at the mortuary, doing such as dressing and preparing
>>the bodies, and planned on making it his profession. He once
>>described what he had to do. I crudely asked him if he got to see any
>>young ladies. In all seriousness, he said no, they were mostly old,
>>because they don't usually die that young unless it was an accident.
>>And dying young is quite rare where I come from.
>>
>>Why should a mortician be under any more suspicion than the average
>>male elementary school teacher, pediatrician or ob/gyn, who would be
>>certain to be in close contact with young people each and every day,
>>all day? I've heard of places that do not allow male nurses to be
>>alone with female patients as a matter of policy. As long as it does
>>not affect my salary or opportunities for advancement, I don't care.
> 
> 
> I know that you like to turn statistics into reasons for more suspicion

Yes, and that tends to be good practice. I am suspicious of the effect
that smoking cigarettes would have on my health, therefore I do not
smoke them.

- Kevin