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To: little jeremiah

“Porn lovers cannot think rationally and lie.”

I think you meant they (porn addicts) can’t think rationally about porn, because they lose that capacity as part of the addiction. Denial, for example, is one of the personality traits of addiction.


147 posted on 05/15/2014 11:11:14 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (America for Americans first!)
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To: CitizenUSA

Well, I did mean that, but also if a person has part of their mind blocked off due to addiction or extreme attachment to some kind of vice, the lack of rational thinking doesn’t just stay in that compartment. Moral blindness affects a person’s whole consciousness.

That is exactly why someone who is immoral in their “personal” life will be immoral in their public life. So politicians or anyone in some kind of public position who is immoral in their personal life is not trustworthy as a public servant.

I don’t mean they have to be a living saint, but following basic moral standards is vital. Using pornography is immoral as it is little different from using prostitutes, but in a sense, even worse, as there is not another real live person invovled, just the eyes, the hand and the sex organ.

Plus the women in the porn business suffer terribly, so there is that side too.


150 posted on 05/15/2014 11:37:19 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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