Quote - I guess I just get tired of all the attempts at showing just how sick a species we can be.

We are certainly in agreement there. I would prefer such things, slasher films included, did not exist. Actually, I would prefer a whole lot of other things didn't exist either. But I don't believe my own sensibility should be the only measure by which all matters should be judged, and frankly, the world would be a much less interesting place if it were.

And I'm all for holding the right people responsible. I'm not even sure I have a problem with punishing collectors or traders or whatever ...

But artists?

I guess, in a society in which an active member of congress (currently somewhat in the news) once wanted to ban the Disney movie, Aladdin, on the basis that she thought it encouraged paganism, and who more recently suggested her political rivals should be investigated for being un-American in their views (when having any point of view whatosever is by definition American, since that is what the US is supposedly about, and when doing not much more than the bidding of international financial and business interests -- which most members of congress have been guilty of of late -- could possibly be construed as being as un-American as anything else), I am just very concerned about where all this intolerance for ideas, for expression, artistic and otherwise, could lead.

And as for Xeno's comment about "popular amorality" having been tried before, when he is right, he is right. As I recall, Lot slept with his daughters, and the Bible makes it clear that God considered Lot to be a righteous man ...