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Old 2010-11-12, 08:07   Link #9821
Nosauz
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Originally Posted by relentlessflame View Post
No. It is not for Amazon to decide what material is and is not up to some arbitrary moral standard imported from another culture. Amazon is a store; they sell published works. They abide by the laws of the country in which they sell. They are under absolutely no obligation, moral or otherwise, to stop selling things just because you don't like the contents. Where are they supposed to draw the line? Who is going to do the content review of thousands upon thousands of works to figure out which works should be banned? Whose standard are they supposed to adhere to? Yours? "America's"? Shall we start burning these heretical books as well? No, this is the epitome of short-sighted, poorly-conceived, bigoted moral-crusading stupidity, and Amazon should certainly have no part in it.
This is the problem with the world in general, the inability to tolerate one another. Believe in sky cake, the idea that someone can be the arbiter of morality when it's clear that morals at least at this point in time seem to be relativistic and not standard. Also if you say that "pedo rags" are ban able, what about rape porn, violent video games, violent movies, movies that promote infidelity because marriage is an institution recognized by the government? This is the problem of legislating morality, everybody is willing to impose on others but when it comes to these peoples liked medium they become hypocrites because "their" likes are somehow above someone else's morality. I know stating slippery slope propositions is often frowned upon, but this is the one real threat in the muting of speech/thought that does not conform to a standard especially one based on emotion or fear.
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