mattstocum

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by mattstocum 13y ago
Snuff films face uproar because they depict actual murder, not simulated. I'm not arguing it should be legal to sell video of an actual rape.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
>it is a scene where a sapient, intelligent being subjugates a 'lesser' creature using a sexual organ for their own goals If you take out the "sexual organ" (I partially disagree with that term as it is also used for
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by mattstocum 13y ago
> Considering the film Avatar literally has what can only be considered an animal rape scene First, have you ever seen two animals have sex? It's almost always what humans would call rape. Second, the "animal rape" scene i
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by mattstocum 13y ago
I agree there's clearly room for nuance, but there always is. No law should ever be treated as black or white, that's why we have prosecutorial discretion, judges, and juries.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
> but to deny it could solve problems at all requires evidence No, to make something illegal, you should have to prove that it is harmful. There is no proof that rape porn is harmful. You can't just throw out a hypothesis and then s
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by mattstocum 13y ago
How is rape porn any different than watching violent movies? Both depict illegal acts. Why is one okay, but the other not? The act of rape is illegal, why isn't that enough?
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by mattstocum 13y ago
And we know it's the sexualized imagery and not the violent imagery that led to violent attitudes.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
If the law made it illegal to posses images or video of an ACTUAL rape, I'd agree with it 100% (I hope this already is illegal). If it's a simulation made by two consenting adults, where's the harm? I find Justin Bieber to be
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by mattstocum 13y ago
The linked Wikipedia article is mistaken in stating that pan and scan applies only to 4:3. The same technique can, and often is, used to prevent letterboxing when showing a films shot at 2.35:1 on a 16:9 display.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
That's just pan and scan from a 2.35:1 source to 16:9. It's actually quite common. "Normal" people hate seeing black bars on their TV, some even more on their fancy new widescreen HDTV. The big problem here is that pan a
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by mattstocum 13y ago
I think what air was saying is that in the US, propaganda, of any sort, cannot be a crime, due to the 1st amendment to the US constitution. That is freedom of speech.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
"Even more limiting, he is dependent on an adult to bring him to the task, keep him working on it, and hold his hand while he spells." It's, sadly, nothing more than facilitated communication.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
It is done with a computer, in this case it appears to be an iPad. The problem is you have a facilitator, "steadying" the hand of the person who is communicating. In reality, the facilitator is actually guiding the person's hand, most likel
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by mattstocum 13y ago
"Not scientifically validated," is being awfully generous. It doesn't work, plain and simple. The facilitator is the one responding in 100% of cases. You not only can see the father guiding his hand, but Daniel isn't even looking at the boa