tastiger opened this issue on May 28, 2008 ยท 48 posts
donquixote posted Sat, 31 May 2008 at 3:20 PM
I really don't understand why any artist ever should be held responsible for what some other individual does with their art. That's like saying it was Jesus's fault that some people burned witches in his name, or that when a writer writes about a fictional attack on the nation's capital, then he is responsible for all such future attacks that may occur.
Fact is, some folks are sexually turned on by earlobes, or toes, or belly buttons, or eyebrows. Does that mean if someone acts out and sexually molests someone based on exposed toes or lobes, or whatever, the guy or gal who didn't cover them up should be considered an enabler?
Child nudity? Ban it or not, using whatever arbitrary standard you like and let's all fight over where the lines should be drawn to our hearts' content -- but let's not pretend that what is and is not stimulating to these monsters (or anyone else for that matter) is in any way objective. Lust, or the desire to abuse power, is in the personality of the offender, and the individual who acts inappropriately should be held responsible for their own behavior, and no one should be able to later claim someone else enabled them to do it. It should be behavior -- not thought or image -- that gets prosecuted.