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To: BenKenobi

And Wilberforce accomplished his goals by using government force. A person who puts porn on the same level as slavery is likely to sanction the use of government force to accomplish her goals. I’m not quite ready to see a civil war with over six hundred thousand deaths happening over porn, are you?


46 posted on 12/18/2010 8:40:20 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: PapaBear3625

“I’m not quite ready to see a civil war with over six hundred thousand deaths happening over porn, are you?”

Which is why Britain had a civil war over this. Oh wait, no they didn’t. Land of Lincoln, who did use force to try to convince people who didn’t want abolition.

Wilberforce acheived his goal through legislation over the course of his entire career, eventually managing to pass the bill. How is that coercion? Coercion would be passing the bill without the support of the people, and the people of Britain eventually came around to his way of thinking. This is the ideal way a democracy ought to work.

Or you can do what Lincoln did. Your choice.


53 posted on 12/18/2010 8:51:10 AM PST by BenKenobi ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." -Tolkein)
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