Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense

An anonymous reader points out this report that a Canadian Supreme Court has broadened its interpretation of an existing law designed to punish adults who attempt to meet children online for criminal purposes; under the court's interpretation, says the article, that would now "include anyone having an inappropriate conversation with a child — even if the chats aren't sexual in nature and the accused never intended to meet the alleged victim." The story quotes Mark Hecht, of the organization Beyond Borders, thus: "If you're an adult and if you're having conversations with a child on the Internet, be warned because even if your conversations aren't sexual and even if your conversations are not for the purpose of meeting a child and committing an offence against a child, what you're doing is potentially a crime."

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completely wrong

[circletimessquare]

evolution has bestowed us with a hierarchy of reactions. tap your knee, it kicks. your spinal colummn takes care of that. higher than that, we have fight or flight: given a shock, the adrenal glands kick in with cortisol, etc. emotions like fear are GOOD: they keep you alive. driving sleepily in the middle of the night makes you afraid of crashing, you pull over, and sleep (another basic biological function you can't simply wish away). this is not a rational decision. or rather it IS a rational decision, prompted by the need to take into account your natural organic biological fears

in other words, your rational world exists atop a pyramid. if you for some reason ignore or disavow the lower baser levels of the pyramid, the edifice of the very top of the pyramid so important to you simply topples over

"the idea that humans will become extinct for not freaking out is itself irrational, and false"

fight or flight keeps you alive. and only when you are alive is everything else you hold dear in terms of a rational world even possible. you've lost touch with the biological foundation upon which you sit. that you are not aware of the foundation of lower impulses and emotions does not nullify their existence or their importance to keeping you around and breathing. in fact, ignore these baser impulses at your peril, or it is your existence that is nullified