Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.zanker.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Floridians against the spread of homosexual values Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:58:24 -0500 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <34lvdgF4c76f7U2@individual.net> References: <34j7lmF4cbosrU2@individual.net> <34jau0F4cbosrU3@individual.net> <10ua71ika223m09@news.supernews.com> <41E51FDE.C6A700BD@yahoo.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net CL4fL2TUNxZVdlLMA4TX4AaqUpQknF7m1yUtQtWqHeAefXCLUS User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:24447 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