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To: livius
If the Archbishop gets his wish, everybody in the US and the world is going to have to ask themselves (a) exactly what are they watching and why are they watching it? and (b) is that the kind of person they want to be? Questions that need to be asked, IMHO.

It appears that if the Archbishop gets his wish, everyone in the US and world will have a government bureaucrat asking them (a) exactly what is it you're watching and why are you watching it, and (b) is that the kind of person we want you to be?

In a self-governing nation it is for each of us to decide on the desirability and necessity of these questions. IMHO.

61 posted on 03/21/2007 3:02:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
It appears that if the Archbishop gets his wish, everyone in the US and world will have a government bureaucrat asking them (a) exactly what is it you're watching and why are you watching it, and (b) is that the kind of person we want you to be?

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That wasn't what I got from the article, but we all have our own interpretations and values.

64 posted on 03/21/2007 3:08:37 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: tacticalogic
Do you think it inappropriate, in a "self governing nation", for private individuals or organisations, to be suggesting that folks be asking themselves a) exactly what are they watching and why are they watching it? and (b) is that the kind of person they want to be?

Seems to me that's part of "self government".

66 posted on 03/21/2007 3:10:11 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: tacticalogic

It should be something that the government is actively campaigning against. If they can spend a fortune to "fight" tobacco, which is legal, they can certainly start a campaign discouraging porn, which is legal and probably a lot more destructive in the long run.

And porn should certainly not be something that is forced on people at every turn - on the internet, in magazines, etc. It's got to go back to the dirty old man environments in which it used to hang out.

This is primarily a male problem - men are much more visual than women are, and seem to become addicted to increasing levels of sexual perversity and violence as a kind of trigger. I have a friend, young and attractive, whose husband never slept with her because he was watching Internet porn. When she finally divorced him, she discovered that he had charged something like $40,000 in porn bills to her charge cards.


73 posted on 03/21/2007 3:24:36 PM PDT by livius
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