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Puritans. We “banned” alcohol for 13 years. America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. We claim to be secular but really it’s an aspiration.
by mulmen 4y ago
Puritans.
We “banned” alcohol for 13 years.
America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. We claim to be secular but really it’s an aspiration.
- tehbeard 4y agoAs much as the evangelicals of America screw with the rest of the world in their quest for purity, the better answer seems to be: How do you know those nudes are taken consensually? And what's your liability for developing ("reproducing") them?
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- anon_123g987 4y agoWhy would you assume a crime by default? The presumption of innocence is only a slogan in the US, just like the above mentioned secularity. Look what happened with the guy in this post. You can't even take a photo of your own kid.
- tehbeard 4y agoThe discussion was around prints of naked adults and why stores might have policies to not develop those. I offered an alternative reason based on the legal landscape rather than a cultural one. > You can't even take a photo of your own kid. You missed the part where we're discussing a sub-topic off that story, someone's experience working in a photo store, and the policies in place there. > Why would you assume a crime by default? I assume you mean "you" as in a photo store that finds such negatives in a job order, and not me directly? Because as I said, your liability or even reputation if this isn't from something legal, is not worth the profit made.
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- 4gotunameagain 4y agoI'm an atheist, and I intensely disagree with the sexualisation of everything in our society dressed as a new sexual revolution, and see it as a direct effect of capitalism. What say you
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- pxmpxm 4y agoI think you'll have to expand a bit on that. 1)Government makes companies liable for hosted third party content 2)Companies set up workflows to detect said content 3)??? 4)Blame capitalism
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- therealdrag0 4y ago1. People like sexy things 2. Companies make or facilitate sexy things 3. Blame capitalism.
- kbelder 4y agoOr thank capitalism.
- felix318 4y agoThe other day I read something about how society must “prevent the oversexualization of children” and that got me thinking, who will protect the oversexualization of society itself? The answer was obvious to me.
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- bart_spoon 4y agoYou say that as if there is no other reason to ban alcohol than religious belief, and not like alcohol being one of the most negative societal influences in the areas of human health, crime, public safety, and poverty. Just because humans are so cripplingly addicted to alcohol that banning was untenable doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.
- pas 4y agothere are many reasons to reduce harm. there are absolutely no reason to ban it, because that only causes more harm. somehow many people on Earth have a remarkable resistance to nuance.
- beebeepka 4y agoYou are blaming alcohol for people's actions. That's disgusting and horrifying. I wonder what makes you say that. Religious?
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- mulmen 4y agoProhibition didn’t work. Everyone who wanted to kept drinking. Religious guilt is an ineffective motivator of change. Source: human history. It’s time to move on.
- yyyk 4y ago>Religious guilt is an ineffective motivator of change. >Source: human history. The alcohol consumption statistics of certain ME states strongly disprove your thesis.
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- OOPMan 4y agoAh yes, a bunch of rather totalitarian societies as the model to strive for, great jumping off point.
- dgfitz 4y ago> America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. Apparently you’ve never been to Baltimore. There is no dark religious past haunting that city, just corrupt politicians.
- mulmen 4y agoIs it your claim that one medium sized city somehow has a bigger problem than the nation it exists within? Baltimore has 10,000,000 people. The United States is larger by a factor of thirty three.
- shawabawa3 4y agoI thought for a second I was crazy not knowing that Baltimore was the largest city in the US Baltimore has a population of 600k not 10m, you're off by a factor of 13
- mulmen 4y agoYeah no idea where I got that Number. Maryland isn’t even 10m people. But that makes Baltimore being Americas biggest problem even more unbelievable.
- greendestiny_re 4y agoWhy don't you petition the government for a redress of grievances and oust them? It's an unlimited right guaranteed by the First Amendment that can remove tyrants without causing harm.
- hedora 4y agoSo, according to the first amendment I can just taze the supreme court, and roll back citizens united, and reinstate roe v wade? That's as batshit crazy as recent assertions that nothing the courts rule can be sexist; after all, women would just run for seats on the supreme court if they cared; they're a majority of the population, after all. Since the nonsense in the last paragraph actually came from a recent supreme court majority opinion, I'm wondering if you can point to a supreme court ruling backing up your statement.
- tryauuum 4y agoeh, I feel like alcohol bans were fashionable in the past. USSR did it, Finland did it...