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Major Nikon

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45. You refused to answer my question
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 10:04 PM
Feb 2019

Instead you posed a different question and answered that instead. Try again. This time answer the question that was asked, not the one you asked of yourself.

And yeah, I get you want to obfuscate, but we are talking about this institution, so try to "focus".

K&R stonecutter357 Feb 2019 #1
How will this work? Cartoonist Feb 2019 #2
Child rapists often do talk after they are caught Major Nikon Feb 2019 #7
Good. It's time to make the clergy follow the same rules as MineralMan Feb 2019 #3
So if the abusers do not self-report, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #4
What does that have to do with anything? trotsky Feb 2019 #5
The "logic" is there's a higher authority than secular laws Major Nikon Feb 2019 #9
To be fair, I believe his logic is this: trotsky Feb 2019 #10
Not even his logic Major Nikon Feb 2019 #11
Another view, in this thread. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #13
Use your own words, g. trotsky Feb 2019 #46
You, and a few others, are making a point. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #47
"We"? LMAO trotsky Feb 2019 #48
More often the victim reports it and is ignored. No more of that. marylandblue Feb 2019 #6
Many times, as the Metoo movement shows, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #14
I don't get you often. marylandblue Feb 2019 #17
The problem is predation. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #20
You don't seem to understand how mandatory reporting works. marylandblue Feb 2019 #25
I understand all of that. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #26
If you understood it, you would not answer that way. marylandblue Feb 2019 #28
We can agree to disagree. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #29
Not really, you are throwing out red herrings. Here isevidence marylandblue Feb 2019 #30
What's worse is he does understand Major Nikon Feb 2019 #35
Worse, when he gives the water to the RCC after carrying it, MineralMan Feb 2019 #37
When they are caught in their crime, they can and will be prosecuted Major Nikon Feb 2019 #8
It is that easy? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #15
Actual experience is that people do confess abuse marylandblue Feb 2019 #18
One person.One single person. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #21
It's not the only such story, it's just the first one I found marylandblue Feb 2019 #23
It is an argument against the efficacy of mandatory reporting. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #24
So your position is that we should do away with mandatory reporting altogether? marylandblue Feb 2019 #27
No, Gil is just against mandatory reporting for religious organizations Major Nikon Feb 2019 #40
How many child rapes must we allow, Gil? Major Nikon Feb 2019 #39
What should we want? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #42
You predictably didn't answer the question Major Nikon Feb 2019 #43
I said zero cases. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #44
You refused to answer my question Major Nikon Feb 2019 #45
What "experience" are you talking about? Major Nikon Feb 2019 #19
Why Don't Child Sex Abuse Victims Tell? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #22
Sometimes the abusers tell Major Nikon Feb 2019 #31
What percentage of abusers tell the authorities? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #32
Do you think it's going to be less than one? Major Nikon Feb 2019 #33
A significant minority do tell marylandblue Feb 2019 #34
It's even stranger when someone suggests we shouldn't Major Nikon Feb 2019 #36
Some do and some don't. Given the RCCs attitudes on sinful behavior, MineralMan Feb 2019 #38
Like a moth to a flame. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #12
Ah....yes.....of course. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #16
Kinda strange really Major Nikon Feb 2019 #41
I see zero downside -nt Bradical79 Feb 2019 #49
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