The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and …

Richard Dawkins
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The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less). ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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