re: #135 cliffster

In general, victims are exploited by people trying to use the crimes to their advantage - and as you said, they are used as a smokescreen for people wanting to ignore the crimes. The common theme is, victims keep getting victimized. By people that suck.

Agreed, but I think we’re seeing two sides of the same coin, here.

You’re arguing that a lot of people use these poor kids as a smokescreen to ignore the perpetrator’s crimes. (Ex: “These victims clearly show that the real problem is organized religion.”)

I’m arguing that by the same argument, a lot of other folks use the kids as a smokescreen to ignore the church’s institutional complicity in those same crimes. (“This isn’t about organized organized, this is about the victims.”)

It’s an unfair use of the kids as a rhetorical football either way. It seems like a faulty appeal to emotion by both sides.