jhmcd2 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2008 · 306 posts
SeanMartin posted Wed, 16 April 2008 at 7:09 AM
>> That's a lot like saying, since the thieves know how to break in, why bother locking your house. A logical fallacy.
In the small town I was raised in, no one locked their doors at night. Car keys were routinely left in autos for the convenience of the owner, and no one cared. Where I live now, I can go off and leave my apartment door unlocked all day and know that there's a good chance that no one will go in.
But you just inadvertantly underscored my point, actually: because we think someone will stroll int our unlocked houses and steal everything, we lock our doors. Because we think someone will run off with our unlocked car, we have these cute little beep-beep things. The odds of someone actually going into your house or stealing your car are miniscule, but we have been so trained to think otherwise that the very idea is impossible to let go of.
Same, IMHO, with this whole nonsense about child nudity. Because we think it's bad, it ipso facto must be. And the fact that the government has a massive document in support of something it cant even define at all simply adds to the comic-opera nature of the whole thing.
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