On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:41:13 +1000, Jeßus wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:09:41 -0700, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:53:32 -0600, gloria.p wrote:
>>>
>>> > Where do you live? Not many places are still safe to turn kids loose.
>>> >
>>> > Do you read the newspaper? It was very safe in my children's day.
>>> > Not today. There are too many people out there searching for kids
>>> > to molest and feeling entitled to do so.
>>>
>>> no, i think it's that no matter where you live, you hear about every
>>> ****ing child molester in the entire country. it's more hysteria than
>>> anything else.
>>
>>I find it hard to believe the rate of child abuse
>>has changed much in the last century or so.
>>I suspect that in the past, people were more
>>likely to keep quiet about it.
>>
>>Sort of like cancer. People didn't talk about
>>cancer as much in the old days.
>
> There's also infinitely more carcinogens in daily life these days.
>
> Jeßus

and to a certain extent, incidence of cancer increases with more people
living longer, having not been killed by that heart attack they had when
they were fifty.

your pal,
blake