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To: af_vet_rr
Yes adultary is bad and yes it is impossible to police and yes I don't want the government in that business.

But, why is it so hard to imagine the easy and cost effectiveness of simply saying that all hard core porn is now illegal. It wouldn't take much money at all to police it, only to incercerate, for some amount of time, people who willfully blow off the law. Corporate america would quickly get out of it and so would ma and pa. It would go underground and become much more scarce.

Why is this thought so repulsive to people who are not porn users? I suspect we have a lot of monkey spankers here who are waxing elloquent, or something, on the issue. But I have to wonder why people would argue against such a simple thing except for an irrational fear that making porn illegal would lead to the Taliban.

464 posted on 04/07/2004 1:52:10 PM PDT by biblewonk (The only book worth reading, and reading, and reading.)
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To: biblewonk
It would go underground and become much more scarce.

First as I've said the underground aspect would let organized crime run the business and result of vastly higher instances of abuse for porn produced in this country. Second, because there will still be a demand, cutting the legal supply would not make it in the least bit scarce. Basic economics shows this with the failure of the War on Drugs. It would be even more so since porn could be sent from foreign locations to consumers in the U.S. over the Internet.

471 posted on 04/07/2004 2:01:58 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: biblewonk
But, why is it so hard to imagine the easy and cost effectiveness of simply saying that all hard core porn is now illegal

Because enforcement would be incredibly expensive and intrusive. First, it would be much easier to import bootleg porn from other parts of the world, than it was to import bootleg alcohol. Second, the only way to enforce such a ban would be for government to have the power to read your e-mail or keep track of what websites your surf.

It would go underground and become much more scarce.

Like alcohol was scarce during Prohibiton, or drugs are scarce today?

Why is this thought so repulsive to people who are not porn users?

Porn or not, I for one am very uncomfortable with giving the government the power to tell me what I can and cannot read or view in the privacy of my own home.

473 posted on 04/07/2004 2:02:46 PM PDT by Modernman (Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
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To: biblewonk
Why is this thought so repulsive to people who are not porn users?

Enforcing my personal morality on others is repulsive to me. (The public morality that says no violating others' rights is another story.)

an irrational fear that making porn illegal would lead to the Taliban.

How do you know this fear is irrational?

479 posted on 04/07/2004 2:10:24 PM PDT by Sweet Land (http://www.savingangel.org)
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To: biblewonk
But, why is it so hard to imagine the easy and cost effectiveness of simply saying that all hard core porn is now illegal.

Not really.

It wouldn't take much money at all to police it, only to incercerate, for some amount of time, people who willfully blow off the law.

What are you smoking? This would take even more money than drugs to police.

Corporate america would quickly get out of it and so would ma and pa. It would go underground and become much more scarce.

I wonder if they said the same thing about drugs.
486 posted on 04/07/2004 2:40:40 PM PDT by Quick1
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To: biblewonk
why is it so hard to imagine the easy and cost effectiveness of simply saying that all hard core porn is now illegal.

Back in my post #410, I asked you to define "porn." I'm still waiting for an answer.

It would go underground and become much more scarce.

And internet porn originating in foreign countries would quickly take its place, wouldn't it?

498 posted on 04/07/2004 3:38:09 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: biblewonk
Yes adultary is bad and yes it is impossible to police and yes I don't want the government in that business

Hardcore porn could be considered just another form of adultery.

It wouldn't take much money at all to police it,

Are you kidding me? Are you going to have the government/police monitor everybody's internet connection? Because guess what, it can be made in someone's home in England and made available on a site in Germany, where it can be downloaded by anybody in America. Heck, it could be made in someone's home here in the US and put on sites overseas for people here to download.

Why is this thought so repulsive to people who are not porn users?

Because not all of us think it's bad. I think it's another form of adultery as I said, and that is a religious belief I hold, and I would not want to force it upon anybody else. Like I said, it's very un-American.

But I have to wonder why people would argue against such a simple thing except for an irrational fear that making porn illegal would lead to the Taliban.

Because it would open the door to even more government intrusion, and the fact that you are on FR tells me you probably know that once government gets a little power, it doesn't stop there, it'll keep trying to get more power.

522 posted on 04/08/2004 6:29:28 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: biblewonk
But, why is it so hard to imagine the easy and cost effectiveness of simply saying that all hard core porn is now illegal. It wouldn't take much money at all to police it

What color is the sky on your planet?

524 posted on 04/08/2004 6:32:41 AM PDT by steve-b
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