Posted on 01/18/2006 8:08:47 AM PST by Liz
You seemed to excoriate alcohol addicts, but you do not seem willing to do the same to sex addicts.
I didn't either. Porn is.
"Why should they if they are doing nothing wrong?"
You asked me why I don't want them in my neighborhood. I gave you my answer. I haven't stated they are doing anything right or wrong. What is your point?
You are evading the point. Why shouldn't they be in your neighborhood if they are doing nothing wrong? Simple question.
Good luck with that and good night. lol
"At least I HAVE a moral barometer."
My experience has been that when posters, especially anonyomous posters on anonymous posting boards, claim they have something, the opposite is generally true. A little red flag goes up when I read your posts.
Good night and BTW I can see a very good moral barometer.
Perhaps you missed my answer to your question. So, I will repeat it. (Post 328)
I don't want them in my neighborhood because it is a business that should be away from children. There are many families with children where I live. IMO it also diminishes the property value of surrounding areas. As long as it is a legal business and operated legally, I have no problem with them.
Again, WHY if they are doing nothing wrong?
Because it is an adult only business. Perhaps you want me to say "because people who go to adult stores are pedophiles or some other nonsense". You'll just have to accept my answers. Sorry to disappoint you.
But kids aren't allowed in them anyway. So why do you not want kids to even see them? Something wrong with them?
No, of course I wasn't expecting you to mention pedophiles...that would be the opposite of your defense of porn shops on this thread.
Thank you. 'Night. :)
"that would be the opposite of your defense of porn shops on this thread."
Perhaps you have reading comprehension problems or you would see from my posts that I am not defending porn shops in my comments.
I am against people like Baldwin who think it is appropriate to photograph people who enter a legal business and then proceed to publish their photos publicly with the implication these people are immoral or of bad character. This is obviously his intent. This is wrong in my opinion. This has nothing to do whether I like or dislike adult stores or whether I think their patrons are moral or immoral. I have not made any statements defending porn stores.
If you can only make wild statements, you will add nothing to the topic.
Porn causes degeneracy and a multitude of family problems. It contributes vastly to men's inability to relate to women in a healthy way. Perhaps you are a user yourself and that is why you have not spoken of the immorality of such...I don't know. If so I urge you to stop...it will do neither you or any family you might have any good.
I will not spend hours with you and listen to you attack a man who is trying to do something about immorality in his neighborhood. I don't know if he will be sued or not. I'm not a legal expert and I don't gather that you are either.
If he risks being sued, perhaps he feels it is worth it to try to stem immorality in his neighborhood. I'm not one to place bets on whether a lawsuit might or might not happen. That seems an empty exercise. All I know is I'm glad Baldwin has the guts to try to stop porn in some fashion when most people see there is such an epidemic of it. I don't care if he takes pictures of the customers going in and out of the porn shop. I really don't feel sympathy for them. I feel sympathy for the families who are broken up by sexual deviancy.
So you might continue to attack Baldwin and think he is in the wrong if you must. However, I think you might also say a few negative words about the epidemic of sexual deviancy and despair which porn shops help to propogate. Good night.
You make a lot of assumptions in your post.
Yes, it's true that I have not commented on the immorality of porn users. My comments have been directed to the tactics being employed by Baldwin - photographing and publishing photos of people with the intention of casting them publicly as immoral or of bad character. I am not prepared to make the judgment that all people who go into an adult store, which is legal by the way, and state they are all perverts or immoral people. I'll leave that to people like you to throw your stones and judge others.
I have no problem with Baldwin opposing adult stores, picketing them, raising awareness of them, etc. I have no objection to having them all closed down if that is the law and what people want to happen. I have stated very clearly about what I object to. Apparently, you are so consumed by your own thoughts and feelings that you are unable to see the danger that tactics, such as publishing photos of law abiding citizens without their permission and casting them publicly as immoral people, entails. And please spare the self serving lectures. Sexual perverts are onerous to our society and should be locked away for a long time for criminal activity, IMO. Apparently, you want to label anyone who goes into an adult store as a pervert. Perhaps we should just shoot them all, right? So what if a few moral people are caught in your web. The important thing is that the adult store be closed because it stands for immorality in your personal view. There are legal ways to deal with businesses that you find objectionable. We are, after all, a nation of laws, are we not? PS: Your whine about having to read my posts for hours is childish. No one asked you to do that. Don't read my posts if you are offended or don't understand them. You will be happier.
Simple decency rarely wins out in the modern world, but it's nice to see action from such concerned citizens, regardless of the outcome. I wish them luck. It's good of Baldwin to bring media attention (and his own creative ideas) to the effort.
I wouldn't harass the law-abiding patrons. This guy is going way over the line when he publishes their names in the newspaper because now he has different moral values. I hope the patrons sue his ass into bankruptcy. Not for taking pictures in public, which any one can do, but for his Taliban tactics of punishing someone who doesn't follow his beliefs. This is America if he wants to be a Puritan after years of drug abuse that's fine. I applaud him, but in America we have the freedom to visit legal establishments without fear of harassment.
You think you are not photo-ed everytime you go into a business, then you are the one that is naive. So everytime I go into WalMart, it's an evasion of my privacy?
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