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Porn should be addressed by the government because if left in the hands of free enterprise where there is easy money to be made - society is seriously damaged. I'll guarantee the Founders of our country would favor government intervention. The only people benefitting from the government ignoring the problem is those making money from it. Everyone else loses.

Porn is not free speech. It is violent and abusive speech directed toward children and women primarily. We may balk at the way Islamic men treat their women and children; but here in America many men treat their women like objects too when they view porn. Rapists and serial killers almost always have porn in their homes. Porn objectifies human beings and makes them objects to be used, not loved.

This thread makes me think of the discoveries our boys made in Ouday's and Quosay's residences. Remember the accounts regarding the TONS of porn. One or both of these freaks had enough porn to make Larry Flint blush. Couple that with Ouday's proclivity for kidnapping women to rape them. People were dehumanized in the minds of these slimebags. Admiring the form of the opposite sex is one thing; objectifiying the opposite sex is something altogether different and perverse.

Porn should be addressed by the government because if left in the hands of free enterprise where there is easy money to be made - society is seriously damaged. I'll guarantee the Founders of our country would favor government intervention.

James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell

13 Feb. 1829
Letters 4:14--15

For a like reason, I made no reference to the "power to regulate commerce among the several States." I always foresaw that difficulties might be started in relation to that power which could not be fully explained without recurring to views of it, which, however just, might give birth to specious though unsound objections. Being in the same terms with the power over foreign commerce, the same extent, if taken literally, would belong to it. Yet it is very certain that it grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government, in which alone, however, the remedial power could be lodged.

if left in the hands of free enterprise where there is easy money to be made

Down With Capitalism! Power To The People! Marx Lives!

Sheesh, who let the DUmmies in?