By "news value," you mean commercial value. In case you hadn't noticed, there are adverts during the news. And the competition for adverts, and advertising dollars, dictates content.
In other words, it's commercial.
No, I mean news value in the sense that they often play those tapes to help identify criminals, I don't watch them for anything else.
And there is no justification for pedophilia due to the lasting damage it does to the victims. We have more than enough in this country, whether it's First Nations people many of whom had to endure institutionalized abuse, victims of the church like the Mount Cashel boys or even prominent sports figures like Theo Fluery and Sheldon Kennedy. We don't need anymore and until they come up with an effective treatment they need to take these people out of society or control their activity if they still live in the general population.
From the article, I don't believe Goldberg normalizes pedophilia but rather looks at it from a clinical perspective. He is not endorsing it.
His statements about pedophilia being a sexual orientation have long been an accepted fact. If what he is saying is true, that most do not act on their sexual preferences much the same as the majority of psychopaths do not murder we have no means of identifying the danger.
I do not believe they should be in authoritative positions around children or left alone with children. If we keep it buried they will be. We need to place child welfare above our feelings of repulsion and open this up.
I don't think we are evolved enough as a society yet to do this.
I think it has to do with power and not sex. Sex(abuse actually) is just the means to exert power over the vulnerable by someone who probably feels powerless in their life.
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