I Enjoy Pasta Because My House is Made of Bricks!
You know, I almost didn't post this. I wasn't sure if there was a way to qualify this entry in the annals of the painfully not bright without coming down on a certain side of any of the possible debates.
But then I realized: this entry, this potential post in our beloved stupid_free is not about criminal rights verses the victim rights. It's not about privacy or reproductive choices or even who we think about electing to our various government offices. This stupid is about people making dumbfucks out of themselves in public! Something we can all enjoy. And boy is it chock full of dumb.
The catalyst for the stupid is an article on MSN about a pedophile who goes around announcing that he is a pedophile, but claims he has never laid a hand on a child.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20060340/site/newsweek/
No matter how you slice is, the subject of the article, one Jack McClellan, is not a bright cookie. Alas, I don't think he hangs out on LJ so we can't go mock him in such-and-such a comm he happened to post in.
The article ends up posted in childfree.
http://community.livejournal.com/childfree/8644410.html
Relevance? Several people who commented on the article and took the position that arresting Jack with no direct evidence of a crime sets a less than happy precedent were told that they obviously must not have children and this made their thoughts on the matter irrelevent.
The further discussion on childfree does not tend to involve the state of internet debates, but rather the topic of the original article. Parts of it are civil. Parts of it make good points. And some of it, uh...
Should I go to jail if I make a website that states where black people hang out?
-mettle_metal
Defies earth logic.
But then I realized: this entry, this potential post in our beloved stupid_free is not about criminal rights verses the victim rights. It's not about privacy or reproductive choices or even who we think about electing to our various government offices. This stupid is about people making dumbfucks out of themselves in public! Something we can all enjoy. And boy is it chock full of dumb.
The catalyst for the stupid is an article on MSN about a pedophile who goes around announcing that he is a pedophile, but claims he has never laid a hand on a child.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20060340/site/newsweek/
No matter how you slice is, the subject of the article, one Jack McClellan, is not a bright cookie. Alas, I don't think he hangs out on LJ so we can't go mock him in such-and-such a comm he happened to post in.
The article ends up posted in childfree.
http://community.livejournal.com/childfree/8644410.html
Relevance? Several people who commented on the article and took the position that arresting Jack with no direct evidence of a crime sets a less than happy precedent were told that they obviously must not have children and this made their thoughts on the matter irrelevent.
The further discussion on childfree does not tend to involve the state of internet debates, but rather the topic of the original article. Parts of it are civil. Parts of it make good points. And some of it, uh...
Should I go to jail if I make a website that states where black people hang out?
-mettle_metal
Defies earth logic.