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To: PeterFinn

If porn's affects were strictly affecting just the viewer, perhaps you would be right. But porn also affects those who participate in it including under-age children. Plus porn seems to induce a few more unstable individules onto more vile and even murderous activities (a la Ted Bundy).!


270 posted on 11/21/2004 8:18:35 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

"If porn's affects were strictly affecting just the viewer, perhaps you would be right. But porn also affects those who participate in it including under-age children. Plus porn seems to induce a few more unstable individules onto more vile and even murderous activities (a la Ted Bundy).!"

On your first point you are making an illogical argument: it is already illegal to use children in pornography. Banning pornography will not make that more illegal than it already is as child pornography is not legal anywhere in the USA.

Your second argument is also without merit. If everything must be banned because a "few more unstable individules" may be unduly influenced than I do trust you support banning television, radio, newspapers, and Free Republic because any law that gets past a First Amendment protection will open the door to other forms of speech being limited by the same artifice.

Bear in mind here I do NOT support pornography. But I would rather be able to argue against it than to have my right to free speech somehow limited by the same legal argument that would successfully breach the 1st Amendment to ban pornography. It CAN happen.


298 posted on 11/22/2004 7:55:19 AM PST by PeterFinn ("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM, they can hate us all they want.)
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