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I've said my preference would be for the information to find its way directly to the authorities.
News to me. It was to broadcast it to the congregation, then it was the congregation are useless and will hide them anyway, now it is the best thing is to pass it to the authorities. Which, if it is to be released, I have argued all along should happen. Why can't this happen exactly? Is it because Anonymous might be good at hacking into things and that is the challenge? They do not think about how to make the best use of that information.
I am not the one pulling the strings in all of this.
Noone said you were. But I have only argued that anonymous could handle this better than they appear to be doing. Which appears you are doing now. Why don't they threaten to make the list public unless the WTBTS hands over all its case information to the police? Including the stuff not on computers.
I won't be drawn on the maths. I simply favor transparency and the rule of law over secrecy and the absence of law.
Fascinating. Because what you are arguing is for transparency of allegations being made public coupled with the absence of law and public opinion judging whether someone is innocent or not. I have been arguing that because of the severity of these allegations the only place they should be examined is within a court of law.
The decision does not rest in my hands. I have told you my order of preference - namely that the names be leaked directly to the authorities and, if this weren't to happen, at least leaked into the public domain. This would still be preferable to pedophiles continuing to operate unchallenged and with free access to potentially hundreds of children, both now and in the future.
This discussion has never been about who is making the decision. We all said ages ago that there was no way to stop these people, although I still hope we can influence them. You equate releasing this information into the public domain stopping pedophiles when in a previous post you said congregations who had been complicit in hiding or supporting these people (and it is not just the elders but others as well) will continue to do so.
Ask them - but I imagine it wouldn't be much of a leak without names being mentioned.
Great. I hope all the victims of abuse on this site are looking forward to every tom, dick and prince harry going through the details of their abuse. Guess it will make them feel better. And I bet none of those victims will be ostracised by congregations for having made an allegation (if they have not already had that happen). Is this a fair price to pay?
I would wager that none of the people who have been actively supported this have even thought that victims' names and details of abuse they suffered will aslo likely be revealed.
The more we pick at this the less of an unambiguously great idea it appears to be.
