arcady opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 105 posts
soulhuntre posted Thu, 18 April 2002 at 10:54 AM
At the risk of being burned at the stake, I think what is important here is the crucial underline of the ruling... There should be no such thing as a "thoughtcrime". Yeah, some people will make CG art with kids that arouses them... and there will be people out there who are aroused by those images. The point is that until they actually go out and break the law or act ont hose thoughts there is no crime. Freedom of speech is a good idea, but it is also a way to defend the idea of freedom of THOUGHT. You are welcome to dislike what people think... but criminalizing thoughts is a fast slope down to a dictatorship. We tried that silliness before, and it's a mess. The absolute morass of law that is "hate crime" legislation is an example of what happens when you try and criminalize thoughts. Remember the nightmare of the height of the political correctness era? Colege students taping each other ins ecret and turning fellow studens in in exchange for added points on their GPA? I for one don't want to live in that kind of world.