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Originally Posted by notabook
A book is full of stories, some just longer than others. Just imagine the horrors that would have occurred if somebody had printed out these vile and vicious stories and then they chose to bind them together, forming a book. Can you imagine how many people would have suffered at the hand of that devious book? Tens of millions of people would have been forced at gunpoint to read the book, subjecting their minds to horrible stories of unimaginable vileness. Then after reading the book, they would have been so enraged and would stop at nothing from acting out those stories that they just got though reading.
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Interesting, I read this paragraph and I thought there was going to be a punchline.
Strangely enough I thought it was going to be the Bible.
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Originally Posted by RawAlex
I am all for protecting first amendment rights. But I can tell you that even a group of hardened porn people such as ourselves would be mightly offended and disgusted by this material, and we would be easily able to say "there is nothing good here". That this sort of stuff is tolerated even for a minute is beyond me.
Even in the most permissive of societies, someone, somewhere will find the line and cross it. I personally don't think it woudl do the porn industry any good to protect or support someone who is so far over the line.
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Alex, don't you think it's time you found something else to do for a living? Many years ago I agreed with you on a lot of issues and I still consider those points to be valid today. You've managed to become such a holier than thou conservative on every issue, even ones like this that are absolutely in need of defending, that it's obvious you don't like what you do.
And when I say in need of defending, I mean the written word. Not the content. Obviously there were very few takers on the content, which is a GREAT thing.
But the line isn't drawn in the sand on free speech and thoughts expressed on paper. It's a concrete line that has to be kept in place.