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Originally Posted by Mick
Not quite sure why you keep bringing the 'Missing' persons arguement into this, as I have pointed out to you which you have appeared to conveniently ignore, perhaps most of these missing people, are people who have run away by *Free Will* this is the difference here between *missing* and being *abducted*.
Being abducted is a more serious problem than someone just being missing, its not the same thing, because one is being held against their own will, missing people may have just decided to run away from their lives and other people, and they may not necessarily be in any immediate danger.
I haven't actually disputed that the media have gone wild over this or have really helped.
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I fully acknowledge that abduction, especially child abduction, is an extremely serious & heinous crime.
I brought "missing children" into it because IMO it is important - my point about it has been why all the media for Madeleine, & never for all the other missing children?
And the NMPH seems to consider it to be important, too. They've been hoping that the Madeleine story will help raise the overall issue of missing children, & have even been met with by members of the McCann family (who find it "greatly reassuring" that there is "a charity, the National Missing Persons Helpline, looking for all the other missing people...Missing is an issue for every one of us.")
http://nmph.underwired.com/news.php?itemid=145
btw, it seems the number has jumped since the last story I linked to... the no. gone missing since Madeleine was abducted is now "over 750" rather than 450 (above link).
Each of those missing youngsters is going to be someone's son, someone's daughter, etc.
Even if most of them are runaways, there are going to be *some* who did not become missing out of their own free will.
And of those who are runaways, it is not as if it is always simple "free will". Many leave to e.g. escape physically or sexually abusive parents, etc. They don't really have a choice (apart from perhaps a Hobson's choice). And then they end up on the streets, & get abused by someone else...