Can you substitute "vegetables" or "snow tires"? No? Well, "guns" doesn't make sense either.
Your support of pornography is weakening your reasoning ability.
Not at all. Propagandists will use the same sorts of statements, no matter what they are trying to demonize. You claim that porn hurts children. Sara Brady claims that handguns hurt children, and in fact, uses similar arguments to the ones you posted previously. As I said, your quote would fit right in with the gun banners crowd, if you just replaced the word porn with handguns.
Mark
You're really stretching it. Your statements are 100% illogical. Some stuff does harm children, some doesn't, etc.
I'm a gun owner and have a concealed carry permit. I am a strong supporter of my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and your rights too.
In essence, your feeble argument is that anyone who says that anything at all will harm children is a drooling liberal who wants to take guns away. That no one should give a s*** about children. So what if kids are damaged by either seeing porn or being around adults who "use" it and are damaged by the adults selfish and vicious attitudes towards sex. Who cares.
All that matters is that porn freaks get off.
Arguments against porn as well as arguments regarding gun safety have valid points. I don't know any responsible gun owners who would favor allowing guns to be promoted without safeties, nor do I know gun owners who would encourage teenagers to take concealed guns to school on a daily basis.
Likewise, the promotion of pornography is foolish when it condons and promotes irresponsible behavior.
The comments about porn damaging the brain are probably better expressed by stating porn damages one's thinking processes. As one advances into pornography, those initially rare thoughts become more frequent and less denied by one's imagination, promoting the viewer to condone more deviant behavior.
Porn is a vice in that the exact same criterion of perception required to identify when one has consumed too much of the vice is eroded by the consumption of the vice. Similar to other addictions, it erodes one's ability to control their thinking, later their decisions, and finally their behavior, even in the face of obvious injury to self and others.