Mosca: You of all people should appreciate the court's reluctance to legislate morality. And you can stop trying to infer that those who find this decision a welcome note of sanity (in your face, Ashcroft!) are all CG child pornographers waiting to unleash their evil wares. It's a cheap and offensive argumentative strategy Gosh, Mosca: whatever happened to good ol' simple concern? No political agenda. No ulterior motives. Just looking at a situation that seems verging on the untenable and asking why hardly anyone here gives a sh*t? Out of the four threads on this subject, I've seen a really small number of people saying, "Okay, maybe this wasn't the greatest thing, but it's something that should be addressed somehow". Instead, it's been "hurray for free speech and damn those bible thumpers anyway!", as if we can reduce this down to ideas that simplistic. Almost all of the "discussion" I've seen on this around here has been "well, gee, what about my needs?" (followed almost immediately with the claims of it being "art", lest I forget that). Be honest: that has been the level of exchange more often than not when we talk about this stuff -- in a recent thread on the questionably young images of Vicky, the remarks in there were tantamount to absurd: "Well, practically, she's only two anyway", as if that was supposed to excuse the teenie-pornos somehow. People are more concerned about their right to make smut than they are to any kind of larger moral responsibility, legislated or not. And yeah, you can't legislate morality. One man's morality is another man's cesspool. That's not news. But when we start allowing that kind of free-for-all thinking as an excuse for kiddie porn, CG or not, then something is really, really wrong somewhere. This isn't Botticelli painting naked cherubs. This isn't Shakespeare. This is kiddie porn, self-described and nothing less, relishing its now-completely-legal status. Sorry, but this whole thing just disgusts me. Huzzah for your personal freedoms, but this is different, and you know it as well as I.