John Grisham: men who watch child porn are not all paedophiles...

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skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
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That came up when he was doing Mr. Mercedes. He didn't want any of us doing research about bombs, explosives, etc. and that extends down to ordering books, going to the library, etc. It didn't occur to us to notify any authorities but then, which authorities do you go to? It would have been easy enough to defend but we really didn't want any of them knocking on our doors and confiscating computers and then having to go through the legal hoops to get them back after proving it was research for a book. I'm trying to remember but it's not coming to me who he went to for advice.

I have to say, especially on the research about the fertilizer plants, that I thought long and hard about what I was doing. Using the library computers were a great temptation. That shiz is taken very seriously. I think the same about any research into pedophilia or the like.
 

Mantor

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Exactly. We've all said dumb things that we wish we could take back or once we hear a different perspective that didn't occur to us when we said it, we can change our mind. The difference is that it isn't said in front of millions of people.

Not specifically directed at you, but just to continue on this idea, I'm not supporting the idea that watching child pornography is in any scenario an okay thing to do but I'm not going to judge John Grisham on having said something that he might have intended an entirely different way but did not express as eloquently as he would have liked. I've seen firsthand how that can happen and the consequences of it from those who want to judge. Perhaps the good that will come of this is that Mr. Grisham will consider a different POV that he didn't think of when he made his comments, i.e. how others might not agree with his defense of his friend and the reasons why the pornography itself is indefensible.
Well put...me too