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So, the issue I see is that NAMBLA *is* a legal group, as far as I know. They are careful to toe the line and not actually advocate illegal activity. If laws were passed to regulate them, those same laws could be used to prosecute marijuana groups, for example, such as High Times magazine. After that, it becomes a slippery slope where anyone advocating anything that could be construed in any way as illegal could be shut down. I don't think it is conspiracy theory to see something like this as a possibility, look at Patriot and then Patriot II.
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People are always worried about this 'slippery slope' and use that as an excuse to defend the most reprehensible of activities. Laws can be written very specifically or generally. A very simple 'The advocating of sexual activity between a minor and adult is illegal' would cover this and yet leave "High Times" free and clear. If anything the 'slippery slope' has gone in the other direction, and more and more formerly illegal activities have become legal. Sooner or later, perhaps it is good to draw the line, and pedophile might be a good place to draw said line.