Much clearer and I appreciate the bluntness. There's a difference between convicting someone of their thought and justifiably not condoning thought. Some could say the entire purpose of the legal system is to delineate what society feels is socially acceptable and what's not. It establishes a forced minimum standard for social morality by deciding what's right and wrong, legal and illegal.
1-Society feels it is morally wrong for people to abuse kids and for people to watch kids being abused. I agree with that moral personally, so I don't think the law is wrong.
2-Some Porn imitates kids being abused. That porn is legal, and the parties are consensual and verified.
3-They are still by moral social standards sub par whether legal by the letter or not.
4-If they ever want to get themselves out of the "gutters of society" and have the connotation of something bad associated with them, they should stop catering to the illegal acts in a legal way.
5-legally there is nothing to do because we do have the letter of the law, and can't prosecute based off of intent. I don't have to personally accept it, or publicly/ socially condone it. I can justifiably condemn it publicly because it is intentionally circumventing the letter of the law and running all over the intent of that law, hence my reason for the follow up discussion.
I appreciate yours and Sae's help in solidifying those thoughts into something a little more concrete then [Mr.garrison]"Porn is bad... mmmmkay [/Mr.garrison]
1-Society feels it is morally wrong for people to abuse kids and for people to watch kids being abused. I agree with that moral personally, so I don't think the law is wrong.
2-Some Porn imitates kids being abused. That porn is legal, and the parties are consensual and verified.
3-They are still by moral social standards sub par whether legal by the letter or not.
4-If they ever want to get themselves out of the "gutters of society" and have the connotation of something bad associated with them, they should stop catering to the illegal acts in a legal way.
5-legally there is nothing to do because we do have the letter of the law, and can't prosecute based off of intent. I don't have to personally accept it, or publicly/ socially condone it. I can justifiably condemn it publicly because it is intentionally circumventing the letter of the law and running all over the intent of that law, hence my reason for the follow up discussion.
I appreciate yours and Sae's help in solidifying those thoughts into something a little more concrete then [Mr.garrison]"Porn is bad... mmmmkay [/Mr.garrison]
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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