Reply #15: There are sex offenders in your neighborhood

[Cronus Protagonist]

You should know that already. What good does the list do other than to allow nutcases to persecute people who may have offended at the lowest level (storing mild porn of questionable age in their computer, perhaps)? What good does it do for you to know the names of someone like that other than increase your fear level and promote attacks and vigilantes?

Especially when every neighborhood has a sex offender in it, or one who's about to be caught anyway, and some, no doubt, who are not on the list - what are you going to do? Tell your little girl not to talk to Mr. Pederast who lives three blocks down?

Not that I want to defend sex offenders, but this is a typical slippery slope situation here that will lead to a loss of civil rights for all of us.

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