To: annalex
In principle, however, it should not be difficult to delineate between merely obnoxious and grossly insulting.
Perhaps in principle, but it's never going to be possible in practice... Heck, they can't even come up with a good definition of porn, let alone something as nebulous as obnoxious!
To: Stone Mountain
OK.
Except I do not advocate sanctioning the obnoxious. I advocate sanctioning gross insults, to family, dignity or religion of the locale.
Our trouble as a nation is that these laws are too federal. The local community has no trouble understanding decency, pornography, or what have you. After all, they still ban public nudity and regulate porno shop licenses. So it is doable, given the will.
701 posted on
01/27/2005 1:55:23 PM PST by
annalex
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