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OK, now you've shifted the rebuttals to be about when someone dies from their activities. Again, misses the point. I have never claimed that the consumer of pornography will die, thereby leaving his widow with a difficult burden. You're fighting a straw man here.

Pornography contributes to real harm to real people. Pornography increases likelihood of divorce => Kids harmed. Pornography contributes to both the perversion and number of pedophiles => Kids harmed. Pornography excites and emboldens sexual predators => Women and children harmed.

I don't smoke, but I do like an occasional Big Mac. :-)

The risks to others from pornography are not imagined, they are real, and they become reality for too many victims every day.

249 posted on 12/09/2004 2:47:19 PM PST by TChris (You keep using that word. I don't think it means what yHello, I'm a TAGLINE vir)
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To: TChris
OK, now you've shifted the rebuttals to be about when someone dies from their activities. Again, misses the point. I have never claimed that the consumer of pornography will die, thereby leaving his widow with a difficult burden. You're fighting a straw man here.

No, I'm not. You're fighting a straw man by saying I'm fighting a straw man. I never restricted my examples to ones causing death.

Pornography contributes to real harm to real people.

So does alcohol. So does tobacco. So do trans-fatty acids.

Pornography increases likelihood of divorce => Kids harmed. Pornography contributes to both the perversion and number of pedophiles => Kids harmed. Pornography excites and emboldens sexual predators => Women and children harmed.

You think alcoholics aren't more likely to beat their wives and children? You think smokers aren't more likely to impose undue financial burden on their families? You think people who suffer non-fatal heart attacks due to overconsumption of cholesterol-dripping burgers don't hurt those who love them?

Other people don't own you, not even your family, not even your loved ones. You have the right to make your own choices, even if they don't like it, even if it imposes harm on them. They have the right to walk out on you if they don't like it.

269 posted on 12/09/2004 3:02:00 PM PST by Politicalities (http://www.politicalities.com)
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To: TChris
Pornography contributes to real harm to real people. Pornography increases likelihood of divorce => Kids harmed.

Divorce rates have fallen since 1990-- see post #265.

Pornography contributes to both the perversion and number of pedophiles => Kids harmed. Pornography excites and emboldens sexual predators => Women and children harmed.

Sex crimes have fallen by half since 1993, coinciding with the explosion of porn:

post #138

274 posted on 12/09/2004 3:16:13 PM PST by Ken H
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