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To: dynachrome

Nobody is ever forced to buy or watch porn. Nobody is ever forced to produce it. No new government programs.


137 posted on 08/15/2007 7:59:22 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: SALChamps03
Nobody is ever forced to buy or watch porn. Nobody is ever forced to produce it. No new government programs.

When my now-wife, working in a college computer lab, found a picture of a woman having sex with a dog on the lab computer, perhaps "force" is too strong but she didn't voluntarily want to look at it. When people in public libraries walk past men looking at pornography on the public computers, perhaps "force" is too strong of a word, but they are not voluntarily wanting to look at it. When a woman driving with her children her car pulls up behind or next to a minivan with clearly visible pornography on the entertainment system, perhaps "force" is too strong of a word, but she's not voluntarily wanting to watch pornography, nor does she probably want her children watching it.

I know the stock Libertarian solution is that nice people should close their doors, pull down their shades, and hide in their homes. But when a liberty imprisons nice people in their homes and lets the freaks run wild, I'm sorry but that liberty has become a liability, not a benefit. It's the freaks that should be hiding behind drawn curtains, not nice people with families.

And what I find curious is how quickly things have shifted from protecting people's rights to do things in the privacy of their own home to protecting people's rights to do things in public spaces. That, boys and girls, is the classic slippery slope in action.

147 posted on 08/15/2007 8:12:04 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: SALChamps03
...Nobody is ever forced to produce it. ...
Clueless. The addicts that are used as 'actors' are forced as surely as if guns had been used. And they sometimes are.
184 posted on 08/15/2007 9:53:37 PM PDT by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: SALChamps03
Nobody is ever forced to buy or watch porn. Nobody is ever forced to produce it.

I generally defend pornographer's first amendment rights, but I'd be surprised if there weren't counter examples to both of those statements. Especially with human trafficking and forced prostitution being what it is.

204 posted on 08/16/2007 1:26:57 AM PDT by amchugh (large and largely disgruntled)
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