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You describe pornography depicting underage people. I'm sure there's consensus on why that is bad. I was, however, questioning whether minors consuming pornogr

• mc32 4y ago
  Do you think there is or isn't deleterious effects when children watch misogyny at a young age, what about watching programming that would show the beating of animals, even if animated and just for "fun", or programming that shows being "fat" is undesirable and indulging in bulimia is desirable (what could be wrong with over-eating and then just vomiting excess, right?) No, I think there are things young minds should be shielded from some things to avoid future mental developmental consequences. You know how movie directors make a movie and in their mind a given movie is supposed to be propaganda against something, but for people lacking this cultivated framework it's a celebration of doing the wrong thing? Take a movie about how being a gangster is bad --but for many moviegoers it's an invitation to the "glamorous" life or power, respect and success...
  • Aachen 4y ago
    You're making false equations GP: is X actually harmful? You: a specific subset of X is, as well as entirely unrelated topic Y, don't you think? Clearly this should be prohibited
  • funklute 4y ago
    > Do you think there is or isn't deleterious effects when children watch misogyny at a young age, what about watching programming that would show the beating of animals, even if animated and just for "fun", or programming that shows being "fat" is undesirable and indulging in bulimia is desirable (what could be wrong with over-eating and then just vomiting excess, right?) I think he was asking (and rightly so) what the scientific evidence says, not what someone's opinion is.