Totally off topic: an interesting man - not all males are paedophiles

Mike ,

I know you do not want me in your posts BUT I had to acknowledge a great point made in that interview :

"But today, the right not to be offended seems to be more important than the right to free speech, and as a result of that we often criticise people for their views and encourage them not to say them with any kind of openness at all."Frank Furedi

Yes Mike, totally off topic, but I'm one of those who is prepared to move on if not interested, and engage if I have an interest.

Had a quick look at his web site. Very interesting bloke, with (generally) incredibly common sense approaches to issues. I support his general views that we, as a society, have gone way overboard with regulation and fear of issues that need little regulation and little fear.

Had not heard of him, but I'll read some more. And by the way though I was far from a marxist in the 70s (I was in the Army at the time), I don't regard that as an automatic negative. For many intelligent people, that sort of thinking in youth is simply part of the learning and life experience process. It does not automatically taint later views developed after considerable life experience. Perhaps the reverse- it enhances the later view as it has not been developed in a vacuum.

Norm C