Posted on 07/14/2004 7:46:19 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
I've seen them pull that "The conservatives want to throw old people out on the street and starve poor children to death!" when they don't get what they want more times than that. Way too many times to fall for getting baited with it by you.
Nancy, you're hilarious.
I agree with your judgement that porn is a symptom of an underlying pathology i.e. decadence-the need for ever greater stimulation in order to maintain the feeling of aliveness.
Where?
Or that those who loudly advocate for such a lost "crusade" will be nowhere near its front lines?
It's a failing of mine...to notice Bravo Sierra writ large, and call it.
As you can imagine, I hold my tongue a LOT at work.
And you accuse other people of sounding like a Democrat?
LOL! I gotta remember my sense of the absurd...
As strawmen go, this is a pretty weak one. Nobody on this thread is in favor of women, children or animals being forced to do anything.
I've tried this before, but I'll give it one more shot: The only pornography that is legal is pornography involving consenting adults. The only way it can be legally viewed is by other consenting adults.
Wow, OC must be tired or drunk tonight- usually he starts calling people 'homos' in his first or second post on a thread.
Mentally, he's still stuck in 5th grade argument level, it seems.
You libertines have been stuck in the same groove for years. Someone needs to kick your victrola.
You're giving your usual high level of wit and wisdom to this thread, I see.
Oh, spare us the "VICTIMS!!!" nonsense already!
I shouldn't have to post this, but it seems to come up on every thread on this topic, totally ignored by the puritains, so... NO ONE on these threads has ever:
- Suggested that kiddie porn or bestiality should be legal, or anything other than the abomination that they are;
- Suggested that minor children should either have access to, or participate in, pornography;
- Expressed any toleration for coercion of porn actors or participants in it;
- Suggested that those subject to such coercion or slavery have no recourse in law;
- Recommended that porn be jammed down the throat of ANYONE unwilling to watch it;
What we HAVE said is that pornography, produced, acted in, and viewed by consenting adults is not something the law should be concerned with, especially on a federal level, and most particularly when it is produced and viewed in PRIVATE.
Other than the above, any "victims" exist only in the type of Leftist psychobabble found on "Oprah", and coincidentally in your post:"The have low self esteem and some don't care to go on living after being abused."
Oh, my heart bleeds.
Conservatives pride ourselves on using logic, fact, and reason in our arguments to counter Liberal emotionalism. Such emotionalism is correctly a sign of a lack of such logic, fact, and reason. It would seem that some "conservatives" also resort to it when their supply of such things is found wanting, and many even use the same words.
If all you've got to offer is such claptrap, then I suggest you find a different place for it.
"They have rights. The right not to be victims of porn."
Of course, in addition to a fictitious "victim class", you had to also invent a new right! Put it next to "the right to be free of want and hunger", and the "right to a living wage".
And before you start tossing "small animals, etc..." around again, I'll pre-emptively call it the strawman that it is, now that I've destroyed all the rest.
I'm still looking for your reasoned legal position to want things your way .
"Wrong: it's a symptom of the very fabric of our society falling apart. The author's entire thesis is backwards
I agree"
I agree to. But what came first the chicken or the porn egg? Because of so much free and easy access on the internet there is entire generations of youth who are now being desensitized to gratuitous(foul fetish garbage) sex and the "objectification" of females.
So, who were they? hehehhe
Going off on a tangent here, but one of the few things I remember from 3rd year of law school is that in Texas it is only illegal to have sex with somebody else's livestock.
Do you really believe that's what you've been doing with such childish insults?
"You libertines have been stuck in the same groove for years."
And YOU guys haven't?!? Your stuff goes back to the Inquisition, and beyond.
Don't hold your breath. I've seen hundreds of his posts over the last two days, and not one came close.
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