Hey Blackstone!
Great to hear from ya! How's being a Webbie feel?

Anyways, I could see the system being partially a reaction to certain cases, but the thing is is that the old system didn't work and this one is better. That doesn't make this one good, but, as I put in my response to Datoka, I cannot think up of a better system that really works. Suggestions?

I think I understand ur suggested system of safeguards, but I really don't think that it is practicle and will only lead to a much increased paranoia around men over what is already happeneing in our society. Think about male baby sitters. Kids are left alone for the night with them, the parents pretty much put complete trust in the guy, he might even bath the kids, and he sees them off to bed. For a guy that has everything under control, those kids aren't in any danger. But for a sex offender, that is opening way to many options to reoffend.

If we followed the your safeguard route (treating all people as if they were sexoffenders, or having no difference in the treatment of sexoffenders and non-sexoffenders) then there would be no such thing as the male babysitter (and likely largly decrease the amount of female babysitters too). This extends to all activities where males are largely responsible for kids. Thus the current paranoia that we always rag about here would only be increased! Of course that would be the absolute safest route for the kids, but not the best one. Think of all the activities and what not that would have to be taken away for this to work? Like I said in Dakota's reply, the current system seems to be the happy medium.

Now, I may not have understood what you were trying to say completely, so please fill me in on any errors I made. And, in conclusion, I want to say that I may not like the system as it is and I definitely recognize its many flaws. But I support it in the fact that it is the best idea out there at the moment and it keeps the kids relatively safe. Although this opinion could change with the right argument ... :P

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