JAFO
Registered User
I've noticed some very disturbing things lately, and needed to write something about it. Who will vow not to tell or pass on the recently "fashionable" jokes about crimes against children? I certainly will.
Some people say that jokes are their way of dealing with stressful situations. My opinion is that is BS (you can form your own). You aren't the one under stress, unless you are one of the victims, and I seriously doubt the children or their parents are making the jokes to deal with what is going on. The crimes do not deserve to have the stress alleviated, it should weigh heavily on the public. If it doesn't, then it isn't given the gravity that it needs.
How many Catholic priest jokes have you heard on late night TV, sitcoms or on the internet? How many jokes will come of this MJ situation? It removes peoples' awareness of what action really takes place in a crime like this and desensitizes the public.
"Did you hear the one about the 6 year old, who always tells his parents he loves them and hugs them before going to school, who got sexually fondled by a sick perverted adult, that he trusted because he was an entertainer?"
"How about the one about the boy who was trying to do God's service at an early age, loved everyone he met but was betrayed by the one person outside of his family that he thought he could trust implicitly?"
Yeah, real funny. The world is losing sight of what a TRUE victim is amid all the frivolous lawsuits for spilled coffee and slipping on a wet floor. These are the most innocent victims possible, young children, who don't even know what a crime is, much less of this nature, who have their whole lives in front of them. They are still at the truly innocent stage in their lives. Blame the priest, blame Michael Jackson, blame the parents whatever. It's the children who are paying the price and are really the ones being made a joke of.
WHO WILL VOW NOT TO STOOP TO THESE DAMAGING JOKES? EVEN IF YOU'VE ALREADY DONE SO, NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT AND STOP IT FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.
[flame suit on]
Some people say that jokes are their way of dealing with stressful situations. My opinion is that is BS (you can form your own). You aren't the one under stress, unless you are one of the victims, and I seriously doubt the children or their parents are making the jokes to deal with what is going on. The crimes do not deserve to have the stress alleviated, it should weigh heavily on the public. If it doesn't, then it isn't given the gravity that it needs.
How many Catholic priest jokes have you heard on late night TV, sitcoms or on the internet? How many jokes will come of this MJ situation? It removes peoples' awareness of what action really takes place in a crime like this and desensitizes the public.
"Did you hear the one about the 6 year old, who always tells his parents he loves them and hugs them before going to school, who got sexually fondled by a sick perverted adult, that he trusted because he was an entertainer?"
"How about the one about the boy who was trying to do God's service at an early age, loved everyone he met but was betrayed by the one person outside of his family that he thought he could trust implicitly?"
Yeah, real funny. The world is losing sight of what a TRUE victim is amid all the frivolous lawsuits for spilled coffee and slipping on a wet floor. These are the most innocent victims possible, young children, who don't even know what a crime is, much less of this nature, who have their whole lives in front of them. They are still at the truly innocent stage in their lives. Blame the priest, blame Michael Jackson, blame the parents whatever. It's the children who are paying the price and are really the ones being made a joke of.
WHO WILL VOW NOT TO STOOP TO THESE DAMAGING JOKES? EVEN IF YOU'VE ALREADY DONE SO, NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT AND STOP IT FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.
[flame suit on]