tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post3208993479355675011..comments2008-09-14T09:14:36.513+02:00Mike Kimerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18002309169478171450noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13098257.post-65191817395388784652008-09-14T09:14:00.000+02:002008-09-14T09:14:00.000+02:00I do completely understand your statement about feeling somehow morally corrupted by these paintings. Because I do see the eroticism in them - I can see the little girls through his eyes.<BR/><BR/>However, I'm not exactly living in fear of suddenly turning into a predator of underage people. My gaze, my thoughts and my actions are not one. <BR/><BR/>There's a lot of things I lust after that are not socially appropriate. And this brings up the question of where the sin lies - in the wanting or the doing?<BR/><BR/>What I think has recently crept into our society is a condemnation for the desirer that is almost on par with the perpetrator. In someways it's a very Catholic concept of the sin of thought. <BR/><BR/>I don't and would never condone the molestation of children. But I really don't feel that society's current temper is doing anything to help individuals carve a deep line between wanting and acting. Putting both the fantasizers and the pedophiles in the same basket, in my mind, simply makes the transition from thought to act easier - because one is condemned regardless, with almost the same ferocity.<BR/><BR/>This worries me.Remittance Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902713020074243375noreply@blogger.com