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I was balloon modelling in Cleethorpes, UK when a group of kids began calling me a pedophile. This went on for over half an hour. I had a license so when the police got involved they were able to identify me and See if I was a sex offender. Did the kids mistake me for someone else? No. They did it for a laugh. Shouldn't they be arrested for inciting hatred. It happens everywhere. Children are cruel.
 magicman  15 Mar 2008 05:00
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Many. I was cruel. Details not needed.
 
 Stranger  01 Oct 2008 20:23
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Yes, because these cruel kids come from verbally-ridiculing homes which is where they have learnt these negative behaviours and the ones to blame are the ones who taught them to RIDICULE (verbal-assault).
 
 Scorpion  01 Aug 2008 14:27
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I agree. People are cruel, certainly children. I've witnessed children saying and doing cruel things to other children and also adults. But this is only because they haven't yet matured. Children can get easily bored and so they turn their attention onto other things, which includes making cruel remarks. They don't understand enough about the consequences of their actions. They are too young.

There are a lot of stories featured on the news about pedophiles and children going missing so they draw up their own ideas from what they see. Children cannot hate anyone, as they are not yet old enough to understand what hatred means.

In time, children mature and learn to think before they speak. Obviously it takes longer for some to mature than others and cruel remarks can even come from adults. Sadly, it's just the way of the world.
 
 louise23  18 Mar 2008 22:12
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People in general are cruel, but children can seem especially so because they haven't yet acquired the veneer of civilisation which most of us wear to disguise our true nature.
Watch Lord of the Flies and gain some insight into what children are really like, and, in fact, what we're all really like deep down.

Returning to the facts of this particular case, In a democracy, people should be free to incite hatred so I I don't think the children should have been prosecuted for that. They should certainly have been charged with Wasting Police Time, however, and possibly Breach of the Peace also.
 
 Hidell  15 Mar 2008 18:35
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 "...to disguise our true nature." Truth to that. Not all need to disguise since there is a nature of love available from Elohim, who is love. The "agape" kind.
by  Stranger
 01 Oct 2008 20:26
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Sir or Madam, I think that it is a bad thing that those kids did that thing to you. But saying such stuff is part of Free Speech. Children have been more victams of crimes and taunting by other children. Weren't you once a kid?
 
 JoeCool  03 May 2008 23:04
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 Please tell me you are joking, have you any idea how dangerous it is to be called a pedophile in todays society magicman is lucky he wasn't assaulted or even worse. Those kids should have been arrested. But in todays Britain it's becoming the opinion that any kind of discipline is wrong and this is the result.
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 02 Sep 2008 00:04
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It's not children as a whole. It's individual children that are messed up. Some children are cruel and some aren't, but we can't lump the entire world population of children into one category!
 
 Mark  30 Apr 2008 00:51
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No they aren't they are awesome most of the time
 
 racerboy  17 Mar 2008 19:54
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Children are merely a product of their environment, if they are being cruel they were taught that at some point in their life. Also you have to take into account the group dynamic, that is people are willing to do things in groups more so than if they were by themselves.
 
 openurmind  15 Mar 2008 15:34
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