War on Porn

Madmax:fury road???.
Cracked me up for some reason... Hahaha

 

This is like trying to pick a blossom off an apple tree and make an apple pie out of it. If you really aren't screwing around, you should know those guys were only able to achieve their goals through strong internal organization, stuff like buying a typewriter and hiring employees, and then moving up to community organizing and stuff like that.
They tried before that to "fight fight fight" and lost miserably. Low level organization and community engagement is where you get real change.

 

Dude, just don't watch it.

 

Preachh

 

Yeah dude, just don't watch it. Don't tell other people who watch porn and don't have a problem with how they should live their lives. It's a free world. Lots of people like porn and that's fine. We can't handle it and we shouldn't touch it. Doesn't mean we need to wage war against it and take it away from the entire world.

 

Well, no. It's corrosive to male-female relationships, putting us below replacement level fertility. In Japan, people are saying the prefer pornography over real sex or real relationships. And it's bad for the adult actors who coild actually do productive work and have a real family. There's nothing wrong with restricting bad stuff: that's what governments are for.

 

You can't morally judge things. Only behavior. Therefor porn on it's own is neutral.
Western societies are the most advanced because of one reason: We have a Judeo-Christian belief system as our base, wherein the individual is paramount (as opposed to the group), is a free agent, with free will and full responsibility over his or her own will. As long as you don't infringe on other peoples freedom, you can do what you like.

When you start to prohibit certain things, like drugs or porn to an entire society, you don't act according to this principle. You're acting in a totalitarian social engineering type of way. Where you select a few individuals (in this case you'd be among them) who decides what the rest of society is allowed to do. Since over time power always corrupts, that's the worst system you can apply, just look at the 100 million dead people of the last century to see what happens once you go down the path of totalitarianism.

And if you want to get rid of porn democratically you can't do it, because ton's of people want to keep it. And why shouldn't they? Of course lots of people can't handle it, it's the same thing with drugs. But if you want to live in a free society you have to allow people to make their own mistakes and you don't reduce them to children and start to think for them.

 

Making and distributing pornography is a behavior though. And it's a behavior little different from prostitution, so right off the bat there's a glaring issue with this line of reasoning. I'm happy to keep prostitution illegal for similar reasons as well as how it spreads STDs.
But even after stopping production and distribution, the object itself is also itself corrosive, analogous to illegal drugs, since it has the negative consequences I mentioned among others. I also don't have a problem keeping drugs illegal.
"Judeo-Christian" is an oxymoron, so I don't see any path to prosperity from there. We did have a strong set of traditional Western values from Germanic-Hellenic-Christian origins where individuals are more highly valued than in other cultures. But that doesn't mean the individual was ever or should ever be "paramount" to the collective. Rather, brilliant individuals could (or should) gain high honor for their contributions to the collective. Any group that doesn't support itself first is doomed to go extinct or get dominated by a group that does put itself first.
Prohibiting drugs and prostitution hasn't caused a mass death in any country I'm aware of. However, STDs like AIDS and Tuberculosis, spread by prostitution and drug use among other things, are killing 1 to 2 million people every year.

So there just isn't a good argument there for why restricting pornography ought to be off the table. Unless we both already want to go anarcho-capitalist which we don't.