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To: Frank Sheed

Pornography is as old as humanity itself. Without draconian measures it will remain with us.
What I fear from the anti-porn people is their definition of porn. Some have even labeled classic literature and art as “porn”.


15 posted on 03/21/2007 10:17:03 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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78 posted on 03/21/2007 3:39:47 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: R. Scott

Exactly.

I also think that it's rather interesting that the U.S. Supreme Court can define legally whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable (Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304; 1893), but still cannot even remotely define what is obscene.

The War on Porn will always be futile until we have a reasonable, concrete definition of what exactly constitutes obscenity.

Simply because what you and I and someone else here might consider to be obscene may very well be three separate things.


88 posted on 03/21/2007 5:04:32 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: R. Scott; rzeznikj at stout

We better decriminalize murder, because that might lead to the punishment of people who were merely defending themselves. (And, come to think of it, murder is as old as humanity itself)


95 posted on 03/21/2007 6:00:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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