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When you talk to Americans about guns or fast food or healthcare or 101 other issues, Freedom is a word you hear a lot. But for porn and alcohol, despite broadl
by LatteLazy 6y ago
When you talk to Americans about guns or fast food or healthcare or 101 other issues, Freedom is a word you hear a lot. But for porn and alcohol, despite broadly harmless, Americans are all about bans and prohibitions...
- travisoneill1 6y agoI drink alcohol, and I am all for that freedom, but it's not "broadly harmless."
- LatteLazy 6y agoThat all depends what you compare it to. 40% of the US population has obesity. I doubt 40% have a drinking problem. Yet any discussion of banning junk food is verboten, and no one seems to care that the US drinking age is way higher than most similar countries...
- travisoneill1 6y agoYeah, but obesity doesn't destroy your ability to function in society. Would you rather have obese parents, or alcoholic parents?
- LatteLazy 6y agoI'd rather have parents who looked at porn occasionally in the privacy of their own homes...
- julienfr112 6y agomaybe their room ?
- jakebasile 6y agoAmerica is an incredibly diverse country, painting all of us with broad brushes is almost always doomed to be incorrect. For what it's worth, I for one absolutely support the inalienable right to keep and bear arms while also supporting the right to create and watch pornography or drink alcohol, even though I understand none of these might be considered "harmless".
- LatteLazy 6y agoI apologise for the broad brush! :)
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoNo I agree with that statement. American society is about condemning things you don't use.
- thepasswordis 6y agoI highly doubt the children being raped for the enjoyment of others consider it "broadly harmless". I also certainly hope that an aversion to the abuse of children is not something uniquely American.
- bilbo0s 6y agoI agree that child porn is not harmless. It's likely the most harmful segment of the pornography industry. But it's also disingenuous to characterize all pornography as child pornography.
- frakkingcylons 6y agoAlcohol is the 3rd-leading preventable cause of death in the United States [0]. By no stretch of the imagination is it "broadly harmless" [0]: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
- cbozeman 6y agoWhy is life in the richest nation the world has ever seen so fucking miserable that people have to drink themselves to death to cope with it? The only way... the only way... to solve a problem is by eliminating the root cause.
- webinvest 6y agoEliminate being miserable? Maybe by giving everyone a free annual pass to their closest theme park? /s
- wruza 6y agoThe root cause is usually a thing that creates these circumstances and bans things for coping/breaking up with it. I doubt that we can eliminate it, because it helped with species survival for too long to be forgotten in a moment. At least not in our current form.