Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
nbcrusader said:
So, we should probably make guns, drugs and all those other things we don't want people to use abundantly available?
I think we would be smart enough to regulate something and educate the public as to its dangers.
what are the dangers of pornography? this appears to be your working assumption, yet i challenge you to find something as direct and clear as the dangers presented by drugs (addiction and death), alcohol (addiction, drinking and driving), guns (sole purpose is to kill someone), and cigarettes (cancer).
can pornography be a bad thing? of course. but it cannot be directly linked to clear, understood, dire consequences like we see in other regulated vices. in fact, i'd much rather have my 14 year old son looking at porn than freebasing crack cocaine, as the two aren't even comparable.
you view pornography as something seductive and bad for relationships; fine, good for you. but you are not free to push this viewpoint onto me and onto others if you cannot prove to me how my consumption of pornography somehow hurts you. you can do this with all of the above vices mentioned, and such vices are rightly regualated, but you cannot do the same with porn. my consumption of porn (hypothetically ... i'm really not all that into porn) does not harm you in any way, just like what i do in my bedroom does not harm you in any way, so you have no right to try to regulate behavior that has no measurable, quantifiable deleterous consequences.