mrodgers
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Everyone complains about "mothers assume every person with a camera is a pedophile."
Well, you folks do the exact same thing in your assuming that every mother assumes a pedophile!
Perhaps people don't want other random people to have photographs of themselves or their children for who knows what reason. Why do you need photos of someone else's children? If you want to take photos of children, go have your own children and take all the photos you want.
What happens to these photos of children? What do you do with them? The children don't mean anything to you, they are not your children. Any more, 9 times out of 10, folks who are into photography for an enjoyable hobby put their photos up on the internet for the world to see.
Is it too much to have a little respect to folks that you don't know and think that perhaps mothers do not want their children's photos taken by some random person and may not want photos of their children up on the internet where anyone in the world has access to that photo? Perhaps it's not the photographer who is the pedofile, but the guy who lived 2 houses down from me surfing Flickr that comes across the photo of my child on your account who is the pedophile. Perhaps it would be within reason that I or my wife would not want the neighbor 2 houses down from me to find a photo of my child playing in the park on your Flickr account.
Yes, there are very disgusting and disturbing people out there in the world. Yes, I was surprised to find out that my neighbor is on the list of pedophiles that they must be registered on. No, that neighbor is no longer there as he passed away a few weeks ago. But, if my living way out in the country, I can find these people living in my general vicinity, then anyone can find them living close by anywhere.
It's not the mothers who you folks assume that they assume pedophile of anyone with a camera that is the problem. It is the photographers who disrespect everyone else and bark about their "rights to photograph anything and anyone" that is the problem. Just leave the mothers and their children alone in peace and go have your own stinkin kids if you feel the need to intrude into other people's enjoyment of the public area.
I get so sick of these threads on the crying of "photographers" about how mothers are suspicious of everyone with a camera. Nope, they just want to be left alone. Public place or not, have some respect for you fellow mankind.
Well, you folks do the exact same thing in your assuming that every mother assumes a pedophile!
Perhaps people don't want other random people to have photographs of themselves or their children for who knows what reason. Why do you need photos of someone else's children? If you want to take photos of children, go have your own children and take all the photos you want.
What happens to these photos of children? What do you do with them? The children don't mean anything to you, they are not your children. Any more, 9 times out of 10, folks who are into photography for an enjoyable hobby put their photos up on the internet for the world to see.
Is it too much to have a little respect to folks that you don't know and think that perhaps mothers do not want their children's photos taken by some random person and may not want photos of their children up on the internet where anyone in the world has access to that photo? Perhaps it's not the photographer who is the pedofile, but the guy who lived 2 houses down from me surfing Flickr that comes across the photo of my child on your account who is the pedophile. Perhaps it would be within reason that I or my wife would not want the neighbor 2 houses down from me to find a photo of my child playing in the park on your Flickr account.
Yes, there are very disgusting and disturbing people out there in the world. Yes, I was surprised to find out that my neighbor is on the list of pedophiles that they must be registered on. No, that neighbor is no longer there as he passed away a few weeks ago. But, if my living way out in the country, I can find these people living in my general vicinity, then anyone can find them living close by anywhere.
It's not the mothers who you folks assume that they assume pedophile of anyone with a camera that is the problem. It is the photographers who disrespect everyone else and bark about their "rights to photograph anything and anyone" that is the problem. Just leave the mothers and their children alone in peace and go have your own stinkin kids if you feel the need to intrude into other people's enjoyment of the public area.
I get so sick of these threads on the crying of "photographers" about how mothers are suspicious of everyone with a camera. Nope, they just want to be left alone. Public place or not, have some respect for you fellow mankind.
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