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In reply to the discussion: With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread? [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)What you describe is a parental responsibility and an appeal to emotion.
What some people fail to realize is that anytime you suppress anything you are trading freedom for something else. Some of this has a legitimate basis. We don't allow grammar school children to buy alcohol for obvious reasons. The idea that the US is more free than other countries is not a good one. There are many other countries which approach civil liberties from the basis of what should be suppressed rather than what should be allowed and they absolutely have far more freedom which extends to all sorts of areas. There's no more dumbing down than those who make half-fast comments about how something is icky, or why would anyone want to do that, or what is the benefit to it. Even dumber and lower are those who have to paint their ideological opponents as porn freaks. They are absolutely approaching the subject from a bassackwards direction. I could give a shit less about smoking pot, but neither do I want it suppressed. I could list lots of other examples.
Those who want to suppress should have a damn good argument as to why anything should be suppressed and the body of evidence to support it just isn't there whether they choose to admit it or not. It shouldn't be incumbent on anyone to prove why anything should be allowed.