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...I wasn't going to talk about Strikethroughgate, but there's this thing that keeps popping into my head.
I'm almost afraid to post about it, b/c I love my journal, and I don't want to get deleted for talking about anything that LJ might construe as "illegal." Not that I think I will...I'm just saying.
I'm not even remotely sorry that a number of sicko pedophile LJs and comms got wiped out in the purge. Good riddance, I say.
Except.
Except there's this little nagging voice in the back of my mind. It's the same voice that protests when ALL sex offenders, regardless of their crime, are sent into virtual exile b/c of those statutes about where they can live. And the little voice asks, "Don't these people, sick freaks though they may be, have the right to assemble, as long as they aren't actually hurting children?"
It makes me cringe. It makes me positively ill--I tend to think pedophiles and serial rapists ought to be castrated or whatever. But in this country, we still believe in things like second chances and rights and, you know, not having a thought police. So...I don't know. There is, as far as I know, no (federal) law against writing about fantasies (however sick they may be). There's no proof that reading said sick fantasies will drive people to act.
I could be way off base here. I know that. I'm not even sure I agree with myself. (I always see issues as polygons--there are always, always multiple sides.) But it's a thought that's in my head, and I needed to get it out.
I rarely find myself wanting to read Foucault, but right now I think he might applicable. It's all about policing thought and regulating--for the purposes of "normalizing"--sexuality. I'm not strictly sure it's a good thing.
I'm almost afraid to post about it, b/c I love my journal, and I don't want to get deleted for talking about anything that LJ might construe as "illegal." Not that I think I will...I'm just saying.
I'm not even remotely sorry that a number of sicko pedophile LJs and comms got wiped out in the purge. Good riddance, I say.
Except.
Except there's this little nagging voice in the back of my mind. It's the same voice that protests when ALL sex offenders, regardless of their crime, are sent into virtual exile b/c of those statutes about where they can live. And the little voice asks, "Don't these people, sick freaks though they may be, have the right to assemble, as long as they aren't actually hurting children?"
It makes me cringe. It makes me positively ill--I tend to think pedophiles and serial rapists ought to be castrated or whatever. But in this country, we still believe in things like second chances and rights and, you know, not having a thought police. So...I don't know. There is, as far as I know, no (federal) law against writing about fantasies (however sick they may be). There's no proof that reading said sick fantasies will drive people to act.
I could be way off base here. I know that. I'm not even sure I agree with myself. (I always see issues as polygons--there are always, always multiple sides.) But it's a thought that's in my head, and I needed to get it out.
I rarely find myself wanting to read Foucault, but right now I think he might applicable. It's all about policing thought and regulating--for the purposes of "normalizing"--sexuality. I'm not strictly sure it's a good thing.