Posted on 02/28/2005 5:53:06 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell
Prostitution: one adult pays another adult for sex- is illegal
Pornography: Where one adult pays two adults to have sex and brings a camera, This is legal.
Pornography has been around for over one hundred years, since the time of the camera,
but it has only been the last few decades where it became the money making industry that it is today. And today's pornography is much much worse.
This question came to me after reading this article
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353029/posts
an excerpt "The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of an obscenity case in Pittsburgh in which a federal judge said prosecutors went too far in trying to block the sale of pornographic movies over the Internet and through the mail. The case initially was prosecuted under Ashcroft""
Should pornography be illegal?
It's an opinion question, you answer, give your reasons. Is it free speech or not? Why. And where is the line drawn? Has pornography promoted homosexuality and unsafe sex? Or is it a privacy issue?
Should there be standards on pornography?
Concerned Women for America say No- what do you think?
How TRUE!
I mean we might miss such important things as "Which Men Make the Best Lovers?" if more things like this are posted to chat :)
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/libertarianism.html#B4
How do libertarians differ from "conservatives"?
For starters, by not being conservative. Most libertarians have no interest in returning to an idealized past. More generally, libertarians hold no brief for the right wing's rather overt militarist, racist, sexist, and authoritarian tendencies and reject conservative attempts to "legislate morality" with censorship, drug laws, and obnoxious Bible-thumping. Though libertarians believe in free-enterprise capitalism, we also refuse to stooge for the military-industrial complex as conservatives are wont to do.
Do libertarians want to abolish the government?
Libertarians want to abolish as much government as they practically can.
About 3/4 are *****"minarchists"***** who favor stripping government of most of its accumulated power to meddle, leaving only the police and courts for law enforcement and a sharply reduced military for national defense (nowadays some might also leave special powers for environmental enforcement). The other 1/4 (including the author of this FAQ) are out-and-out anarchists who believe that "limited government" is a delusion and the free market can provide better law, order, and security than any goverment monopoly.
What is the libertarian position on abortion?
Most libertarians are strongly in favor of abortion rights (the Libertarian Party often shows up at pro-rights rallies with banners that say "We're Pro-Choice on Everything!"). Many libertarians are personally opposed to abortion, but reject governmental meddling in a decision that should be private between a woman and her physician. Most libertarians also oppose government funding of abortions, on the grounds that "pro-lifers" should not have to subsidize with their money behavior they consider to be murder.
What is the libertarian position on art, pornography and censorship?
Libertarians are opposed to any government-enforced limits on free expression whatsoever; we take an absolutist line on the First Amendment. On the other hand, we reject the "liberal" idea that refusing to subsidize a controversial artist is censorship. Thus, we would strike down all anti-pornography laws as unwarranted interference with private and voluntary acts (leaving in place laws punishing, for example, coercion of minors for the production of pornography). We would also end all government funding of art; the label of "artist" confers no special right to a living at public expense.
Sure. That doesn't mean we enshrine every Christian moral rule into law.
No.
right wing's rather overt militarist, racist, sexist, and authoritarian tendencies and reject conservative attempts to "legislate morality" with censorship, drug laws, and obnoxious Bible-thumping.
Conservatives are not racist or authoritarian.
Pornography....hell I don't know. It isn't a victimless crime, but what does it say when we ask the government to tell others what they can or cannot do with their free time? As an artist, I've had a different view of the human body and nudity beaten into my head. A scantily clad person can be just as erotic and far more beautiful than a sweaty couple In Flagrato. IMO
Or the endless T&A pictures of Anna Kornakova and others posted here. LOL
Whoa. Talkie. Got the big soapbox on tonight.
Then again as George Carlin quipped, "selling is legal, F-ing is legal, why isn't selling F-ing legal?"
Whores and Mothers: Some Ideas on Women and Pornography
By Mary Hayward
Libertarian Alliance Pamphlet No. 16
http://www.capital.demon.co.uk/LA/pamphlets/whores.htm
Nonsense. Nobody is proposing playing pornography in public.
We're talking about consensual pornography involving only adults viewed in private only by other adults.
Should we ban smoking and drinking too?
The Libertarian Question
Incest, homosexuality, and adultery.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:KNLMka4OXpAJ:www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz043003.asp+libertarian+homosexuality&hl=en
Get those Libertarians!
The Libertarian Question
Incest, homosexuality, and adultery.
Interesting read.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz043003.asp
Make it illegal. If something immoral is not illegal, eventually it will get subsidized. Germany already forces unemployed women to go into the sex industry. It will happen here too.
They're already regulated, and banned, in some locales.
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