[slhill]

You continue to beg the question. You have not demonstrated, either by evidence or by theory, that porn is harmful. What's more, if you were interested in making the world safer for everyone, and especially kids, you'd be pushing for poverty-reduction schemes. Poverty is the single biggest determinant of crime the world over. But my guess is you don't think it's the government's business to try to control crime levels by schemes to reduce poverty.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If you want to continue to blather a blind academic philosophy, then go right ahead. In the meantime I will do what I can to help adults (rather than adulterers) run the world.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What's more, if you were interested in making the world safer for everyone, and especially kids, you'd be pushing for poverty-reduction schemes

I can see the desperation now: the "lightning rod issue" argument. Because B can be worse than A, then we should not worry about A.

[Dataman]

slhill: You have not demonstrated, either by evidence or by theory, that porn is harmful. What's more, if you were interested in making the world safer for everyone, and especially kids, you'd be pushing for poverty-reduction schemes.

Your particular argument, "if you can't prove to me it's wrong, it must not be wrong," is substantially vacant. It becomes clearer as these porn threads continue that the defenders of porn cannot be dissuaded. After all, porn is addicting and who can break an addiction with words?

Very well, slhill, I will give you some objective evidence for the banning of pornography, although you will not accept even one reason because your addiction impedes your ability to reason.

1) Man has a higher nature and a lower brutish nature. This is basic. If you want to know more about this, consult your nearest library. The brutish nature of man must be controlled if civilization is to exist. The higher nature pursues good; love beauty, wisdom, art, God, etc. The lower nature is fueled by lust, hate, greed, envy and the like. To which nature does porn appeal? The lower nature. There is a word for ministering to the lower nature: Pandering. The very nature and purpose of porn is to generate money by appealing to lust, a base desire.

2) The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography found links between pornography and violence against women, child molestion, failed marriages and organized crime. You may not like the conclusions of the Commission. I can understand that. It is, nonetheless, objective evidence.

In the case of item 2, you may dispute that men who would molest kids or beat women didn't become that way because of porn. The evidence says otherwise, but even if I grant you that it still says that woman-beaters and child molesters are porn users.