“The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct”: This is the title of a book being sold on Amazon only a few hours ago!
Whilst browsing through the news, doing my research for my next topic, the title “Amazon row over pedophile book” appeared under the Most Popular titles for the day on the BBC news website. Considering my sensitivity over child exploitation, it is hardly surprising I clicked on the story. Upon reading the article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11731928), my eyes almost popped out of their sockets!
Not only has Amazon allowed this book to be listed amongst the rest of its books, but they have also “explained” their allowing it to be listed as fair and legitimate since it “did not promote criminal acts but also avoided censorship”! Are they being serious? If this book is not an encouragement for pedophiles to continue torturing children, then what is? From the title, my wild guess is not only that this book is encouraging pedophiles, but that it is a guide to “young pedophiles”, who are new at the “job”, as well. Or, if its scope is broad enough, giving new ideas to those criminals looking to cause even more harm!
How dare they use the word “censorship” when people demand that the book be taken off the website? A website, which, ironically, has advertised a book that would have gone unnoticed otherwise! Have we forgotten under what conditions it was decided that censorship should not be legitimate? Censorship is what Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbels, did to the German press in the 1930s and 1940s; censorship is what led the world believe that the Soviet Union was powerful and thriving, when Stalin was sending millions of people to their death in Siberia and his people were dying in the streets of Stalingrad because of starvation and the cold; censorship is what is currently happening all over the world today, for example Iran. The difference is that, nowadays, we have learnt from the mistakes of the past, and anyone with common sense and a healthy mind would realise the difference between being morally conscious, preventing the advertisement of horrific crimes such as pedophilia, and censorship that leads to the blinding of the public opinion.
I applaud the individuals on Twitter that took the initiative to ask Amazon to take the book listing down. If it weren’t for them, thousands of new pedophiles would be encouraged to explore in practice their urges, after buying the specific book on Amazon. Let’s keep in mind that buying and selling is not simply an exchange of money; it is an exchange of opinions, which could have a critical impact on the world of tomorrow.
Let’s keep trade moral, so that our children do not have to grow in a world where anyone can be informed on the “How to’s” of a crime. Let’s raise them in a world, which will explain everything to them, and will help them distinguish right from wrong…
Take care x
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