(March 29, 2011 at 9:32 pm)tackattack Wrote: I prefer more reality less distortion, but to each their own. Do I think society would be better without it? Yes I think society would be better if people weren't so uptight as to determine how other people should live their lives and have to invent a word called pornography. What's done is done though, and feeding a multibillion dollar industry that subsidizes (at the worst) or encourages pedophilia is not something I would contribute to.
1. There is nothing uptight what-so-ever about allowing people to participate in the consensual trade of their choosing, porn is exactly that. Being critical of the choices other adults make is the only uptight part of the debate. The word pornography was invented just the same as the word toast was invented, to refer to a specific category of object or action.
2. Pornography does not create sexual desires for children, it can at most help people facilitate their desires. Participating in the abuse of children in any form, be it making or watching (encouraging) the production is morally abhorrent and should be punished with the full force of the law. However, in the same way as banning knives because a sparse few might kill someone is absolutely immoral, banning pornography because some absolute minority might film the exploitation of children is just as bad.
The argument you use against porn with pedophilia is no more valid that someone arguing that gay marriage leads to child rape.
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