Pornography, it's values and evils are not a big part of life. If you like pornography fine. Don't force it on me. If you hate pornography, fine. Don't impose your views on me. I put this issue right next to gun control, the war on drugs, tort reform, taxation, welfair, equal opportunity, and a host of other issues where people need to impose their will upon me.
I raised my kids to know right from wrong. You can too.
If you are viewing pornography in a public place, unless you can confine the view of it to your own personal space, you are forcing it on others. Unless, that is, you want to assume that everyone should pass through public spaces with their eyes on the floor because it's their responsibility to avert their eyes from what other people are looking at in the open rather than the responsibility of the other person not to view it in public.
And if you cannot justify the prohibition of pornography in public spaces, do you support the prohibition of nudity and sex in public spaces, or is that fine with you, too. I mean, who are we to impose our morality on people with an urge to have sex and force them behind closed doors, right?
Don't impose your views on me. I put this issue right next to gun control, the war on drugs, tort reform, taxation, welfair, equal opportunity, and a host of other issues where people need to impose their will upon me.
Do you believe in property rights? That's imposing your view on others because not everyone does. Oh, you might think you've got good reasons to protect property rights but, really, should you be imposing your views on others?
"Pornography, it's values and evils are not a big part of life."
It's like poison gas...when it's not in the environment, you don't have to worry about it. When it's all around you, you do.
Question Assumptions has it exactly right just above. “As a society, we have two choices. We can force adult behavior behind closed doors and make the public space safe for children or we can force the children behind closed doors and make the public space an adult space.”
If you consider legislation to “force adult behavior behind closed doors and make the public space safe for children” to be “imposing my views on you,” then that’s just tough, because I intend to continue agitating for such laws.
“I raised my kids to know right from wrong.”
Never since Adam and Eve has knowing right from wrong halted a wrongdoer from doing wrong. Besides, I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by getting personal.