Toronto Police fight child porn and abuse

Click on the title to read the article from the LA Times.

I'm not going to quote the story, you'll have to go read it. It is a sad state of affairs brought about by the change in attitudes about the sexual nature of humans. And I use the term "humans" loosely. It's animalistic. It is worse than 'sick' it is demented. It is hellacious. It should not occur or occur only rarely in a civilized society. But the world and especially the United States is no longer civilized. We're past that. Children are not taught to "mind their manners." Adults do in public what they would not have done 50 years ago. I mean like blowing one's nose at a dinner table. Or talking 'trash' and 'gutter' in a voice loud enough to be heard a half block away. I'm talking being civil and civilized.

Civility is passe' and no one seems to mind.

Miss Manners is asked stupid questions and the questioner has no plans to actually follow her advice.

The days of demureness and acting properly in a given situation are gone.

And why? You tell me. Because we as a people, not just in the United States, but people in general, have been sliding down into the depths of depravity and have barely noticed. It started with the first "dirty word" on television. Shock, horror. But we let it pass. If we protested, we were "censors" and we were therefore "bad" for trying to protect those who didn't want protection from hearing filthy language. Then it was racial slurs. Then it was advertisements for "women's products" -- I HATE those ads today and I'm glad I no longer have to purchase them because if I did have to, I'd only buy those sold by companies who do not put that stuff on television.

Oh, remember the first time a bathroom was shown on television??? In the 1950's, couples had separate beds and no one ever went to the bathroom. Today, they can film the entire half hour television show, which by the way is a full 19 minutes of actual "show" and the remaining 11 minutes are commercials, in the bathroom. And then cut to a commercial filmed in a bathroom and the viewer doesn't know if he's watching the show or the commercial. I don't want to see your bathroom, thank you very much.

One radio commercial I absolutely loathe, it's like fingernails on a chalk board, is for a male sexual enhancer. It starts off "sex is an important part of every relationship." Balderdash. If you buy into that, you're one of the "so called humans and I use the term loosely" people. The entire concept of sex (I am assuming they mean sexual intercourse) being an important part of every relationship is one of the stupidest, ignorant-est statements I've ever heard. It has no place in a civilized society. The statement as well as what it alludes to. Grrrr.

Okay, I'm off the soap box. I don't even watch television except at work and then only rarely. I saw the twin towers get hit as a re-run while at the dentist's office on 9/11/01. I got up early and I watched Pope John Paul II's funeral on the television at work. I heard first and then saw the bells when the College of Cardinals had chosen Pope Benedict XVI, also at work. I just don't have time for it. I spend my time glued to the computer.

OH, let's wait and go there later. The computer is amoral. Remember that. It's just a tool. And as such, can be used for good or for evil. It's not the computer that is immoral or moral. It's the person using the computer who is immoral or moral.

So, the question of the day is: Are YOU civilized? Comment on what it means to be civilized in a nation which is slipping into an abyss. Or maybe you don't think it is slipping at all.

I await your comments.