What reality?
Statistics say (and we all know about statistics, but since there isn't anything else to work with) that a small percentage of all child abductions are committed by non-family members. I imagine that all of those abductions weren't commited exclusively by men. So, I think it's pretty reasonable to say concerning the statistics I posted above that less than 58,200 abductions in the year 1999 were commited exclusively by strange men. Less than 59,200 out of nearly 800,000 that year. So, 7%? 8%? of the total number of kids who disappeared in 1999 were abducted by "strange" men.
Now that's still a risk, but a risk worthy of special scrutiny? Is the risk of your children being picked up worse than say....being in a car wreck? attacked by a dog? hit by lightning? Is the risk so great that as a parent (or whatever) you have to be especially vigiliant to ward against it or as a male especially vigiliant in changing your behavior to keep the feathers unruffled?
I keep asking why people behave the way they do, but I guess the question I should be asking is why don't you fix it? If you recognize you're being manipulated or the logic is unfounded, why don't you make the effort to change that behavior?
Can I be completely irrational about something and expect the masses to adjust their behavior accordingly to accomodate my irrationallity even in the face of all common sense and logic?
It just boggles my mind that in a world where compromise is king and civilized people are expected to try and see the whole picture rather than just their viewpoint, that people refuse to even bother to see the other side. I see comment after comment like, "Well, I do it as well, but I'm not going to change nor apologize," and it just blows me away.
Surely more to come, but here's some
more linkage..
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Originally Posted by MSNBC
ZION, Ill. - The father of an 8-year-old girl who was slain along with her best friend admitted to authorities that he was the killer, saying he was angry at his daughter for taking money, authorities said Wednesday.
A judge denied bond for Jerry Hobbs after prosecutors described a videotaped interview in court in which they said he told investigators he stabbed the girls to death. Hobbs’ daughter, Laura Hobbs, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, were found dead Monday in a park in Zion, the day after they vanished.
The 34-year-old father, who had been released from a Texas prison last month, told investigators he was angry at Laura when he tracked her and Krystal in the wooded park, punched her and then killed both girls, prosecutors said.
Hobbs stared at the floor as Assistant Lake County State's Attorney Jeff Pavletic described the case against him.
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Hmmm...the latest case in the news about two little girls missing and it looks like the father did it and not some anonymous pedophile as was feared.