Letter: Who are the real monsters?

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

To the Editor:

An “Editor’s Notes” column, 8/5/2016, keyed in on the current Pokemon Go craze sweeping the nation in order to warn children and parents of the potential but thus far non-existent danger of registered sex offenders to children playing the game.

For the most part, this column avoids the more hysteria-driven warnings of some others. The implied advice to kids to watch where you are going is certainly good at any time in any place. The directive to parents “…to exercise some discretion when allowing their youngsters to wander around with their faces buried in their phones looking for Pokemon monsters …” is sensible and timely.

If only it had stopped there.

But no, the reason is spelled out in no uncertain terms and in language that should not be used to refer to human beings if our goal is to bring them into the circle of law-abiding society.