Predators & Pornography. A disturbing link.

NRO ^ | May 19, 2005, 8:15 a.m. | By Penny Nance

[Blowtorch]

This "Pepsi wins" urban-myth is the logical result of advertising. People believe it even though it isn't true.

Its' not an urban-myth. Pepsi kicks the crap out of coke. I had a coke the other day and ended up pouring it down the drain.

[ExPatInFrance]

You are a cool mom!
Yep, kids have to grow up and make their own decisions, right or wrong. I would rather see my kids run home with their tail between their legs after having done something stupid rather than never leaving the house tied to my apron strings.

And FYI, my kids turned out GREAT! I'm a proud mom of 2 adults contributing to the general good.

[ExPatInFrance]

lj
Obviously no one would ever condone or protect anything to do with exploitation of children, even fictionally, it's wrong, no one here will disagre with you. It is the adult behaviour that is under discussion, how adults interact with themselves or others.

[cyborg]

I don't know if you're a woman or man. I'm a woman. I thought you were a mom for some reason and based on that just thought it was weird for a son to ask. I don't want to get in your business so I'll leave my post at that. I didn't mean to be offensive.

[DainBramage]

And arguing with hardliners in either camp is also completely pointless. As I should have known better

Hard to make a your case under the monkier "dead corpse".

Necrophelia would realy be a tough one to defend.

[laredo44]

So if life imitates art, and a piece of suppossed art models a destructive form of behavior that we would never want to see indulged, should that piece of art be banned?

No.

Is the inclusion of the word "supposed" supposed to influence my answer? Is this one of those editorials disguised as a poll that Rush has been going on about lately?

[Durus]

So you are saying we aren't a secular state based on reason?

Let's take it a step further. Are you claiming we are a theocracy based on the revealed knowledge of a Christian god?

[biblewonk]

Thus no one else would either...hmm...

Some people can't handle the liberty of gun ownership either therefore.......

[arasina]

So if life imitates art, and a piece of suppossed art models a destructive form of behavior that we would never want to see indulged, should that piece of art be banned?

No. There have always been predators, child molesters and killers. They just didn't get the publicity in the past that they do now. I question the corollary. If you go with your premise, wouldn't you have to also propose a ban on all advertising?

[laredo44]

I am not a libertarian. I do not believe anything goes in a free society so do not force your views upon the rest of us.

You've got it 180 degrees backwards.

[laredo44]

Did I miss any other sophistries?

How about the one where you love liberty?

[laredo44]

Alcohol is not immoral in and of itself, the abuse of alcohol is.

Name an abuse of anything you'd consider moral. Isn't it the abuse itself that constitutes immorality?

[laredo44]

If your watching of football and taking a golf vacation causes your wife extreme emotional distress, you might want to think about it...

Or maybe the wife is the one that needs to do some thinking...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Isn't it the abuse itself that constitutes immorality?

Well done. For the anti-porners on this thread, it seems that "use" = "abuse".

[Aquinasfan]

How about the one where you love liberty?

I do. "Liberty" isn't about the freedom to do evil. That's kind of absurd, doncha think?

[laredo44]

If those who advocate "protection" of this kind of pornography ever looked one of these parents in the eye and seen the awful, tortured pain that never goes away, the issue would be settled.

Who is advocating protection of child pornography??!!

[laredo44]

I fail to see how anyone's free speech impinged in this way would do any real harm to anyone.

How about someone's pursuit of happiness? Can you see how that might be impinged by banning something they enjoy?

[TheGunny]

Again, for you argumentative slow types.....

Relations between husband and wife are private because of modesty, not because they are dirty or immoral.

Again, just for you scum.

[xsrdx]

Just curious - would video of a married couples sexual activity be pornographic in your mind, if only they watched it? Or does it only become "porn" when it's distributed for public use? Is it the medium, the act, the participants, or the viewer that makes it porn?

Would it be a sin to use such tapes in sex therapy to improve a marital sexual relationship?

If a married couple should watch each other in the mirror and enjoy it, is that un-Christian?

[laredo44]

Would you want YOUR female children in the porn industry? I sure wouldn't. I don't want anyone else's daughters in that business either.

So you'd be OK with your male children (or the male children of others) being in the porn business?

The parameters you place on your nannyism are interesting. You have very little confidence in the ability of the rest of us to run our lives, do you.