(April 12, 2011 at 2:27 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: On page 355 (off of google books) of "The God Delusion" by Richard DawkinsHe is speaking about his own experiences. He says he attended three boarding schools who all employed "pedophilic" teachers, and that he was a victim of one of them, yet the experience was more embarrassing than harmful, and he would come to their defense if they were hounded like child murderers.
"Nevertheless, it is clearly unjust to visit upon all pedophiles a vengeance appropriate to the tiny minority who are also murderers. All three of the boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affection for small boys overstepped the bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless if, fifty years on, they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers, I should have felt obliged to come to their defense, even as the victim of one of them (an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience)."
How you can take what he wrote about his own experiences and think it applies to his general thinking about molestation is quite beyond me.
