arcady opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 105 posts
VirtualSite posted Wed, 17 April 2002 at 4:04 PM
Legume: Most people aren't going to start creating child porn with Poser. Most people find it dispicable Most people find murder despicable, Legume. Most people don't engage in that either. It's the ones who do that we need to worry about, right? Overturning it doesn't send the message "It's cool to jack off to pictures of kids"; it says instead, "let's make sure we don't screw the innocent in our quest to punish the guilty". Granted. But that's not my issue here. Look, I know I'm outside the herd's mentality on this issue most of the time, and I can live with that. I think this place is sometimes obsessed with sex (sometimes? who am I kidding?), and anyone who states otherwise is immediately decried as some kind of puritanical jerk who has no business dictating his wrong-headed moral position to people who know better. But when you start putting kids into the equation, I start to get a little peeved at the free-for-all atttitude. It's saying, "Hey, anything -- even a kid -- can be made a sex object, and don't make a fuss about it, because it's my right to make that kid a sex object if I so desire." Now yeah, around here, we say we would stand up to the kiddie-porners if they showed up with the wares. But you know what, Legume? I don't think we would. Instead, cynic that I am, I think we'd be fascinated, riveted to the new-found possibilities. And we'd set aside any arguments against them because, after all, it's art, protected by the Supreme Court no less, and if you start censoring one piece of "art", then, by God, you're only one small step from censoring all of it, right? Yeah, it's all a "what if" argument. But just as others have their right to express their god-given need for vaginal morphs, I think I'm entitled to say that on this issue, if we claim to have any voice on the matter at all, we're not talking very loud. Just my 0.02, which I'm sure most of you feel is all it's worth.