am i the only one?

[bednobs]

ok, i feel a weird saying this on here, but does anyone haave any views that if you said them people would think you were a little weird, so you just dont say them?
Mine is: i dont get all hyped up abour paedophiles. I think it's wrong and very bad, its just i think there are worser things. I never say this to anyone in case they think
1)im cold and heartless or
2)i'm condoning paedophilla (which im certainly not) i will state again, it is very wrong, but i just cant get all het up about it - either because i dont have any children or because i think the media hypes things around the subject too much without me adding to it.

What un pc views do you have that you are willing to admit to?

Oh, the other thing is i think recycling is naff

[Pippa68]

Oh, and on the paedophilia front..

I don't like the fact that Bill Wyman is called a paedophile. As whiffey has pointed out, there are different degrees and to look at Mandy Smith at 13 you wouldn't have had a clue..ok, so he soon found out how old she was and..

Oh bu88er it I'm off to my dark room again.

[Dassie]

Pippa. Well said. I also agree that all benefits should have some strings attached.
Young single mothers claiming council houses and benefits are one of my favourite gripes. Nobody asked them to have children, so why should the taxpayer fund their lazy lifestyle? Nearly all can be seen smoking and drinking and it makes me sick to think I have to indirectly support them.

[bobtheturkey]

im sick to the back teeth of the madeline mcann story as well i dont care if that's heartless

[Pippa68]

Me too, bob.

[Pippa68]

Dassie, I am on a roll!

Unfortunately my views are quite unpopular ~ especially the one regarding paedophilia.

[Dassie]

Pippa. Keep going. I definitely care more about animal abuse. I suppose it's because a human can reason why, whilst animals can't understand why they are being hurt, if that makes sense.

[meglet]

Dassie, how is a 4 year old, for example, supposed to reason why they are being abused?

[Pippa68]

Well I'm not sure about that, Dassie..but I am not on this thread to debate or argue someone's point ;o)

I have kids and pets so I can be emotive about both types of abuse but I state again that having sex with a 14 year old girl who is streetwise and probably knows what she is doing is entirely different from having sex with a 6 year old 'real' child.

I hope that makes sense!

[Dassie]

By "reason" I mean they can communicate through basic speech unlike animals.

[dot.hawkes]

at the risk of really really getting people annoyed, (but i am used to that anyway) I am afraid that over the years if a story comes on the news about an earthquake ot a bridge collapse and it is in a third world country , even if it mentions several hundred dead, i do nor seem to register an emotional flicker, and when i think back to the years that we had the Vietnam footage on out TVs night after night, it seems like it is stemming from those times. it is something thast we watched every day whilst waiting for the local TV news, it gfelt very detached then. probably will regret posting this but noone takes any notice of me anyway lol

[Shadow Man]

meglet, that is the problem. Nobody is accepting that having sex with a 4 year is OK. It is utterly abhorrent and the offenders of such crime should be hung, drawn and quartered.

But animals just affect mine and others emotions a little more.

[meglet]

Just because they can ask "why" doesn't mean they understand.

[bednobs]

i didnt want people to have to justify their views, just tell me what they are!

[bobtheturkey]

and then you are asked to contribute to aid the aftermath of some earthquake in the back a.r.s.e of nowhere meanwhile i lost a pound in the lucozade drinks machine today

[Pippa68]

That's very interesting Dotty.

I remember when the tsunami hit, and being totally unpopular as I wasn't as upset as I had been when 9/11 happened. In fact I wasn't upset at all ~ probably because I considered it one of nature's evils..and 'act of god' as it were, rather than an act of terrorism.

As Wardy says, everyone is different and emotive subjects are too.

[Pippa68]

That's what I thought bednobs.

I hoped this could be a thread where people can express their unpopular views without fear ;o)

[bednobs]

the other thing was i wasnt moved at all by diana's death as i thought she was a silly bint

[whiffey]

How many times have you gone to submit an answer or a question then wondered - will this make me popular or unpopular ? Society motors down the centre road, and this is how political correctness works.

[dot.hawkes]

tut and i thought it was going so well lol :))

[bobtheturkey]

im incapable of empathy towards anyone i dont know, with animals its different that's the best way i can sum me up