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funkyfairy23

less posts, but longer ones when i do!

Feb 14, 2010 10:36

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.htmlRead more... )

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efrafan_refugee February 15 2010, 02:58:04 UTC

This is one of those areas that I sometimes struggle with intellectually. I am a huge believer in freedom of speech. I take a stance that is absurdly liberal and think plenty of things should be on TV that are disallowed, that government should (by and large) stay out of speech, art, and anything related. That being said, I cannot separate out my disgust of sex acts involving children and the people who want read/see them ( ... )

IMMA PUT ON MY DEBATE HAT! nemoid February 15 2010, 04:25:36 UTC

IMO the main reason that child porn should be illegal is for the protection of children. If nobody is being victimized, I don't think it should be a crime. Yeah there's some twisted stuff out there, but from what I read this guy was a harmless otaku who amassed thousands of manga books, only a small portion of which being lolicon. There was no evidence that he had viewed any real child porn. He wasn't a child's sports coach or an elementary school teacher or something else to give him "SuperSkeevey Points" - just a bloke with odd tastes ( ... )

Re: IMMA PUT ON MY DEBATE HAT! efrafan_refugee February 15 2010, 05:39:40 UTC

A couple of responses to this ( ... )

Re: IMMA PUT ON MY DEBATE HAT! efrafan_refugee February 15 2010, 05:40:46 UTC

Apparently I rock at html. Only the book title was supposed to be underlined.

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funkyfairy23 February 22 2010, 04:50:03 UTC

I DUNNO MAYBE
how long are you there for again?