HD wrote:
> "B J Foster" wrote in message
> news:g9724l$af5$1@aioe.org...
>> David Moss wrote:
>>> B J Foster wrote in news:g94jqa$ii0$1@aioe.org:
>>>
>>>> bringyagrogalong wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 27, 11:22 pm, David Moss
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> bringyagrogalong wrote
>>>>>> innews:af46da9f-6917-4abc-a198-9ccf783ff471@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.
>>>>>> com:
>>>>>>> On Aug 27, 10:12 pm, David Moss
>>>>>>>> "Cruizin" wrote
>>>>>>>> innews:6%atk.31754$IK1.3181@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
>>>>>>>>> Any other organisation that was so riddled with paedophiles,
>>>>>>>>> protects paedophiles from prosecution, and generally condones
>>>>>>>>> paedophiles would be closed down.
>>>>>>>>> Why is the catholic church so different?
>>>>>>>> Size.
>>>>>>>> If you group together a sufficient number of people under one name
>>>>>>>> chances
>>>>>>>> are you will find paedophiles among them. If you scrutinise the
>>>>>>>> number of people who call themselves Catholic it is statistically
>>>>>>>> ivevitable you will
>>>>>>>> find paedophiles among them. Sad but true.
>>>>>>>> Shutting down the Catholics would make as much sense as shutting
>>>>>>>> down Australia because some Australians are paedophiles.
>>>>>>> It's just that it's endemic within the Catholic Church.
>>>>>> Thats just a rephrasing of "its endemic within a sufficiently large
>>>>>> population sample".
>>>>> It's just that paedophilia in "a sufficiently large population
>>>>> sample" pales in comparison to the Catholic Church.
>>>>>
>>>> David is getting stuck in the rut of attacking the fallacy of
>>>> generalisation & not addressing the topic.
>>>> Yes, we know that it is incorrect to conclude that "Catholic priests
>>>> are paedophiles" just because *some* are.
>>> The question was about the Catholic church, not Catholic priests. It was
>>> a general question that you want to make specific. I can do that.
>> Okay, the original poster wrote:
>>
>> Any other organisation that was so riddled with paedophiles, protects
>> paedophiles from prosecution, and generally condones paedophiles would be
>> closed down.
>>
>> Why is the catholic church so different?
>>
>> What have the Bishop's got on the politicians?
>>
>>
>> The question is essentially, 'Why is the Catholic church not subject to
>> the same laws (as the rest of us)?'
>
> They are. But first, you can't close down the Catholic Church the same as
> you can't close down the Ford Motor Company.
Why not?
> Secondly, if you could close
> down an organization, you don't stop perverts from being paedophiles and you
> don't stop them living in Australia.
> A very large number of Paedophiles go to poor Asian countries to satisfy
> their perverted needs.
> Do we close down Qantas?
>
If Qantas management were aware of a specific crime and did not report
it, or if they concealed evidence of it, then they would be guilty of
perverting (nice word that!) the course of justice.
In such a situation, do we close down Qantas? No. Do we charge their
management with a crime? Absolutely. |