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Originally Posted by Igottago
Not sure I agree with this. Sure it raises awareness for the public, but why would the type of person who abducts a child care what is being said on facebook? If their moral compass is so far off that they are willing to abduct a child and even worse, I don't think people posting on facebook would do anything to change their mind -- clearly these aren't people that are worried about social pressure.
I'm not sure what resulted in this guy returning the kid -- its just a lucky and rare case.
Didn't the guy's mom make a plea for him to return the kid as well? Maybe that had an affect on him.
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Fair enough. You make a good point.
However, there is a chance that it may not have been a lucky and rare case. Quite possibly, a half-assed rational thought came across this person's brain and realized that public awareness of this kidnapping was HUGE. Whether that was created by social media or not is debatable, but there's no doubt in my mind that it adds another dimension to creating awareness and social pressure in situations such as this one.
On a different thought, I could never ever see this level of public awareness or even care happening in the United States as it did in BC and western Alberta. Maybe because kidnappings happen multiple times on a daily basis that Americans become desensitized to them, but it was unbelievable the amount of care this part of Canada had about this particular kidnapping.