Writing pedophilia guides isn't a good idea.
Philip R. Greaves II, author of “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct,” might have to start working on a new book soon – “The Pedophile’s Guide to Avoiding Prison Rape.” Reason for that being the fact that he got arrested for violating Florida’s obscenity law and could spend a while behind bars.
Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said his office was able to arrest Greaves on Florida charges because Greaves sold and mailed his book, “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct,” directly to undercover Polk deputies. Judd says Greaves even signed the book.
“He very proudly sold us his personal copy,” Judd told the Associated Press. “I was outraged by the content. It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children”
What I find frustrating about this is that a lot of people online are defending the writer based on his “freedom of speech” right as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, unaware of the fact that freedom of speech is not an absolute right. It is a right that must be balanced against the national interest and may follow the “harm principle” or the “offense principle” if it comes in conflict with the values and rights of others. What freedom of speech does absolutely guarantee is the right to speak on issues of public concern, for example against government regulation – but that shouldn’t cover someone who wrote a guide on how to sexually molest children and get away with it. And since the guy wasn’t arrested for expressing his opinions in a book in the first place, none of the freedom of speech stuff matters anyway, so it’s irrelevant to invoke freedom of speech in an effort to keep this douche out of jail.
Free speech issues aside, I’m glad this guy has been arrested for selling that book, because I find its subject to be beyond disgusting.
