RE: Meaningfulness v meaninglessness; theism vs atheism;
January 15, 2011 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2011 at 7:50 pm by dqualk.)
thesummerqueen Wrote:dqualk Wrote:The "cover ups" are not so bad as they sound. People cover up crimes like this for all sorts of reason, not all of which are evil. For one thing there was a belief, due to liberal social sciences, that children molesters could reform if they admitted to the crime and took steps to stop it, this was AGAINST Canon Law, which called for very tough measures against the perpetrator.
Wait a minute. Wait a goddamn minute. I really hope that you meant something other than what it sounds when you said this:
Quote:People cover up crimes like this for all sorts of reason, not all of which are evil.
In what universe is it EVER acceptable to cover up a crime such as molestation? The cover ups aren't as bad as they sound?
It is up to the medical and psychological community to figure out whether or not something can be done to a perp once he's caught. But to enact those measures, he has to be caught to begin with. There is clear evidence in multiple cases of 'hush ups' to avoid scandal, and thus men who never got punished either way. No thought for the people who were repeatedly raped, sometimes over the course of decades, by these vicious men who were supposed to remain celibate because their religion said so, and then used the trappings of that same religion to enact horrible physical, emotional, and mental abuse on their victims.
Thank you for giving me the beneift of the doubt as I certianly did not mean exactly what I wrote. What I'm saying is not that the evil committed is not so evil, but that the Church is not so culpable as it seems. Becuase, in my opinion, you cannot rightly blame the whole Church for the actions of idiots. As I've talked about in other posts, with my police analogy.
Here is when, in my opinion it might be ok to cover up something like this: Say a 17 year old girl willingly had sex with a teacher at her school. Nobody finds out except the teacher, the parents, and the girl. They all decide that rather than let this go public, they would rather just keep it a secret, and the guy needs to get some kind of help, and the girl does too. Personally I would rather it go public. But I would not be so harsh on the parents and girl for deciding to do it in such a way. What do you think?
