11-11-2010, 11:01 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11731928
There is only one way for businessman who have no moral or ethical compass to know what is right and what is wrong, and that is for the public to tell them to withdraw the book or else lose their customer base.
I am a fairly regular customer of Amazon but have just done that.
I strongly urge other readers here to do the same.
Use the following ink to do so:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-u...&skip=true
1. click on the "Something else" button.
2. select "other non-order questions"
3. select "email"
4. Make your complaint known and "send email"
If anyone finds a more direct contact method please post it here.
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Row over Amazon sales of paedophile advice guide
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A self-published guide giving advice to paedophiles that is for sale through online retailer Amazon is stirring up controversy on the internet, with some threatening to boycott the website.
The availability of the Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct has led to questions over scrutiny on the site.
Amazon allows authors to submit their own books and shares revenue with them.
Amazon said it did not promote criminal acts, but also avoided censorship.
Before authors are able to sell a work on the site, they are asked to read a set of guidelines, which bans offensive materials.
But Amazon does not specifically state on its website what material it deems offensive, instead saying "probably what you would expect".
Boycott threat
Responding to the criticism, the retailer said in a statement: "Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.
"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."
The author, listed as Philip R Greaves II, argues that paedophiles are misunderstood and purports to offer advice to help them abide by the law.
Individuals on the micro-blogging website Twitter have asked Amazon to remove the book from its site, while some are threatening to boycott the retailer.
One Amazon user posted a comment on the site saying: "I have seen first hand the harm that people like the author of the book, and potential readers, do to children and to see a book like this on Amazon's 'shelves', so to speak, is very troubling to me."
The title is being sold for the Kindle electronic reader.
There is only one way for businessman who have no moral or ethical compass to know what is right and what is wrong, and that is for the public to tell them to withdraw the book or else lose their customer base.
I am a fairly regular customer of Amazon but have just done that.
I strongly urge other readers here to do the same.
Use the following ink to do so:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-u...&skip=true
1. click on the "Something else" button.
2. select "other non-order questions"
3. select "email"
4. Make your complaint known and "send email"
If anyone finds a more direct contact method please post it here.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
