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If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost. Delegitimization and criminalization of vice is an old, old, old,
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost.
Delegitimization and criminalization of vice is an old, old, old, old, old trick in the book to stir people up against a "degenerate" "other" as a means to engineer their consent for their leaders to accumulate power and wealth.
It also provides a convenient way for dissidents to be delegitimized or arrested when police "find" (i.e. plant) evidence of drugs/porn/what-have-you. Old trick, works as well today as it has for thousands of years.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoInevitably anti-pornography laws are enforced more harshly against more vulnerable groups.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoSame with drug laws under Nixon/Reagan/Duerte.
- reader5000 10y agoIt could be a trick, or, porn could be damaging to the human psyche.
- CaptSpify 10y agoAlthough I agree with most of your point, I do take issue with this: > If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost. I think there is huge value in analyzing the pro's and con's of anything, out of which debates will naturally arise.