Fear and Loathing in Newcastle

[kneeshooter]

I'm positively fuming, as I suspected I might be. I'm listening to a presentation, actually - let's call it a scare story - from CEOP. The presenter is telling me, rather badly, that looking at pr0n will make me a paedophile.

I am not claiming that it's not a serious issue and that real harm is done to children around to world because of child pr0n, but I resent being piss-poor attempts to intimidate and scare me.

Now I shall attempt to say something sensible in the Q&A.

My starting list is:

"How much do you spend on education as compared to detection/prosecution?"
"Do you believe that the problem can be solved?"
"How much evidence is there of translation from online into the offline world?"

More suggestions welcome.

Comments

[skinfitz.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Prince Harry smokes dope therefore he will be a hardened drug addict later in life.

[ayrton-nix.livejournal.com]

Ha. Not sure he'd ever need to resort to mugging to feed his habit though!

Actually....

[harrytc.livejournal.com]

Cannabis _did_ turn me into a raving drug fiend.

I only started smoking when 21, and it was joints after work in the restaurant. Giving up hash was easy, I just kinda went off it a while ago.

But giving up nicotine has deffeated me several times.

Re: Actually....

[ayrton-nix.livejournal.com]

Not sure there have been many instances of people being mugged for a couple of quid or a packet of baccy by a sweating, panicky nicotine addict ... although I could be wrong!

There seem to have been a lot more studies lately into addiction being partially related to a genetic disposition.