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Originally Posted by Nosauz
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. |
Really interesting book that is getting a lot of mileage with influential people and policy types... worth a look:
The Watchman's Rattle by Rebecca Costa
(Thinking our way out of Extinction)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...778XQEEK1R2YWJ
edit: oh and this is one of a series but some of the funniest (aka tragic) explanations of the Fed and other issues I've ever seen.
(two robo-bears explain Everything, but in this issue they cover Quantitative Easing by the Fed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY1...layer_embedded