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Posted on 04/16/2002 7:32:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court struck down a congressional ban on virtual child pornography Tuesday, ruling that the First Amendment protects pornography or other sexual images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex.
The 6-3 ruling is a victory for both pornographers and legitimate artists such as moviemakers, who argued that a broad ban on simulated child sex could make it a crime to depict a sex scene like those in the recent movies "Traffic" or "Lolita."
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I've been reading computer graphic design magazines for years (my dh gets them from work) and they all agree - the aim of every digital movie studio worth its salt is to create "virtual" actors who will seem indistinguishable from live ones. The Japanese animation "Final Fantasy" was a good example of an embryonic attempt.
Eventually the visual technology will be so skilled that it will be *impossible* to distinguish between a digitally created actor and a live one. If such a distinction can't be made, then all child pornography laws will be dead letters, since there will always be "reasonable doubt" whether the children involved were real or virtual.
That's how it works. If someone here does not believe that, then use your rights in an immoral way and see how long we last.
So between the three of them we have 1.5 soulless black rider.
But what makes you think the Creator can't Himself revoke them via the hand of a tyrannical government?
So a vengeful God begat tyranny?!?!
I guess we got the DMV for our more venial shortcomings.
There is no reason to personalize your comment. It isn't about me. I don't know what you think I should get control of.
He doesn't beget it, he does nothing to prevent it.
He doesn't beget it, he does nothing to prevent it.
That’s our job.
As long as the Supreme Court says so, yes.
Everyone here should just stop with the insults and answer that question. Then we'll know on which side of the fence each stands.
The reason nobody wants to directly address the legal realities here is because people like you come along and accuse anyone that admits to said LEGAL realities as being nearly Satanically evil in a MORAL sense. Which is, of course, insulting BS. Morality and legality are separate issues here, period.
I was just mearly suggesting the surest way I know to fix what's wrong is to control ones self. To excercise you agency justly, morrally, correctly when given the highest degree of freedom gives you the highest degree of return.
Only when I'm out of ipecac.
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Wrongo. Spend any amount of time looking at the founding of this country and look at what they were thinking. To them, every legal question was a moral question and vice versa.
The freedom of the moral and the right of children to be safe in our society is effected by this sort of thing. To not realize the cause and effect is like saying a diabetic really can eat sugar. Libertarianism is great as long as it recognizes the forgotten side of freedom; the right to live morally. If a bunch of people are walking around with kiddie porn in their heads kids are going to get raped. Liken it to driving drunk. You are intoxicating minds who will later cause harm to other free people.
So you'll never do a thing to challenge the Supreme Court--they're your ultimate arbiter of legality and illegality. You contradict yourself.
The reason nobody wants to directly address the legal realities here is because people like you come along and accuse anyone that admits to said LEGAL realities as being nearly Satanically evil in a MORAL sense. Which is, of course, insulting BS. Morality and legality are separate issues here, period.
They are intrinsically linked. If you insult the Creator who gives you the unalienable right to be free by using your 'freedoms' in a manner that utterly offends Him, then your laws will slowly take a form that cuts off such 'freedoms'. Freedom has a purpose, just as life has a purpose.
Yes, they do. Fake images or not, it will excite these creatures. They will get their titilation, and then go looking for the real thing.
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