The legalization of Pornography

Yeah man I get what you're saying and agree with you for the most part. You hit the nail on the head pointing out The culture of hypersexualization of the masses.

 

Yes, I think most people of many different persuasions can agree on this at least. It's just common sense.

 

If you put the issue on a continuum - where you start with a few basics constraints on access to P, and at the other end you have complete censorship - I think most people can at least agree on some kind of basic constraint.

And for that you don't really need a lobby group as most people already agree. All you need is a bill to be promoted by some representative, and then passed..... and enforced.

Surely there would be someone in the system willing to be an advocate for this cause... and the advocate should come from the most 'liberal' sector... somewhere way over on the left, lest politicians and Americans think it is just another puritanical conspiracy to subvert the American way of life.

This is just good basic common-sense regulation. Anyone opposed to it would just be showing their ideological prejudices.

 

Another reason for the 'liberal' Left to pick the issue up, for a minimum of regulation of internet access [to minors], is that they are less prudish on such matters. Also, a vestige of the logic for order and the public good survives on the Left.

The Right tends to leave things split between the public and private - they do not want to mention what kinds of things go on in private, whilst also hesitant to regulate what goes on in the public realm. The [to my mind, Protestant] logic of freedom and individual rights predominates here.

 

So you disagree that having some system in place to ensure that little boys and girls, say under the age of 12, are not exposed to hard core pornography is a bad idea??

 

Not sure about crazy....but you sure have the ideological blinkers on. I guess you think something like, 'No government is good government'.

I think 'no government' is even worse than 'big government'. What is need is a small government that can do the necessary regulation. Government in moderation.

 

So you think governments making laws is worse [more evil?] than protecting children from vicious pornography.

Due to the nature of technology and the free market, no regulation would be possible without government involvement. It would as simple as putting age restrictions on all devices. Like what they do with alcohol these days... you need to be a certain age to legally access the alcohol... or cigarettes. Do you think all age restrictions, all government regulations, should be removed from these substances? And that children should be allowed to freely buy them?

 

Perhaps, but I could equally say you are letting classic liberal ideas get in the way of your practical reason/ common sense.

We supposedly all have the right to do what we want as long as our actions do not negatively impinge on others. And for the sake of the argument, and with adults in mind, I concede that.

But we are not talking about adults, so the liberal logic does not apply. Isn't a child's access to pornography going to have a negative impact on their life? Yes, because they are not yet the developed, free, rational, independent person/ agent that the liberal theory has before it in its model of society. This is why all liberals SUPPORT having laws to protect children. This is why there are laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and alcohol to minors.

Put your prejudices to one side for a moment and think about it.

 

It's such a poisonous lie. Convincing people that indoctrinating them and brainwashing them can't hurt them. They can advertise and promote drugs and convince children to use them and brainwash them with every kind of perversion. This as long as it isn't the actual act of murder [ even though it will lead to bad behavior] is supposedly liberty. If anyone ever speaks a word of religion, of course, that is tyranny and has to be shut down immediately with full force [ this is when harming others openly is mandatory].


Freedum to sell drugs to your children and get them hooked before they can even think for themselves. You, of course, don't have any freedom or course of action to stop them because that would be tyrannical. We know that freedum can't hurt anyone it only does good.

I'm gonna go off topic in here and start talking about my favorite movie and I will post 100x in a row cluttering the thread any Mod who stops me is being tyrannical and part of an oppressive government. Kidding of course. There have to be rules and boundaries or there is chaos.

 

It's up to you to control yourself not the government. Not everybody who watches porn becomes a porn addict.