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Should child pornography be legal? Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater? Doxing of private information? Those are all "positions", in your view.
by drchopchop 6y ago
Should child pornography be legal? Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater? Doxing of private information? Those are all "positions", in your view.
- cambalache 6y agoI cannot believe you consider sexually abusing children a freedom you need to give up. Same for creating panic in a crowded room. Jesus, at least come up with better examples, like playing your instrument full volume at midnight, running naked in the street or taking a bath in a public fountain (well that is permitted in some places)
- chickenpotpie 6y agoIf you don’t understand the point someone is making please ask follow up questions instead of choosing to interpret it in a way that you can accuse them of being a pedophile
- cambalache 6y agoApply that advise to yourself then, I didnt accuse him of being a pedophile. I specifically wrote that he was saying (as he was) that the prohibition of child pornography curtails freedom. It does not. So I would suggest you to read better before playing a virtual cyber cop.
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- iphorde 6y agoObscenity and alternative points of view are two different things. It is sad we live in a society that is unable to distinguish between the two.
- vladTheInhaler 6y agoThere isn't a bright line between the merely offensive and the "obscene". Even the supreme court couldn't do any better than "I'll know it when I see it". And for that matter, different cultures define obscenity in very different ways. Which one is the objectively correct way?
- iphorde 6y agoExpressing an opinion is not obscenity. Showing images for provocation is obescenity. The I know it when I see it argument is ridiculous. The Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. California that obscenity is content that is without socially redeeming value to that which lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Now you can argue the points of what has literary value, but the written word has always had literary value, no matter how grotesque. We don't burn books in this country.
- confidantlake 6y agoIf I draw a stick-figure and label it The Prophet Muhammad should that be banned? After all my drawing skills are terrible and it is likely to provoke people. But that doesn't seem very free to me.
- iphorde 6y agoGiven the Supreme Court has said that would have artistic value, you can do what you want.