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You'd definitely need a better poster child than sex work for that in the US. There's no way conservatives would vote for something with that as poster child an
by iteria 3y ago
You'd definitely need a better poster child than sex work for that in the US. There's no way conservatives would vote for something with that as poster child and some democrats wouldn't either. The US as a whole regardless of team is pretty puritan.
- User23 3y agoYou don’t have to be a puritan to find pimps distasteful, even if they are cyber. Edit: Child evidently has a reading comprehension problem and didn't understand "don't have to be a puritan." The emphasis is on cyberpimps. Whether or not you approve of pornography or prostitution you can still find pimps, who are by nature exploitative, distasteful without being a puritan.
- Retric 3y agoPuritan is defined as finding porn etc distasteful, so it really is. one who practices or preaches a more rigorous or professedly purer moral code than that which prevails https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puritan https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puritan It’s the objection itself not the reason for it that’s important. In other words objecting to porn on artistic grounds is still puritan.
- broken-kebab 3y agoReason is very obviously hardcoded into the definition with "moral" word. Ergo, >objecting to porn on artistic grounds is still puritan. is not true
- Retric 3y agoValuing “good” art is a moral stance. It’s a judgment of what human behavior is good or bad.
- broken-kebab 3y agoIt's moral stance if you define good as moral. In other words, your reasoning is a circular reference, and not very useful
- Retric 3y agoDifferent definitions of the word good here. Someone who values “plucky” art is making a moral judgement in the same way someone who thinks it should be destroyed, preserved, created, or … It’s defining something as positive or negative which makes this a moral judgement not the specific value assigned. I use positive/negative here because someone may believe there’s an incorrect solution to a math problem without judging such errors in terms of morality.
- User23 3y agoI don’t think that word means what you think it means in the context it’s being used. In this case a moral judgment simply means with respect to ethics. One could morally judge something to be good, bad, or neutral.