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They're marching again, you know. Those who believe that they best know how to run your life; that the freedom to say and do what you choose is too dangerous a thing for you to handle, poor weak foolish creature that you are.
Doesn't it make you feel safe, knowing that these people have volunteered themselves for doing your thinking for you? And of course, it's all done in the name of protecting children. Assaults on freedom are always done in the name of protecting the children, because it makes it so much harder to criticize the zealots.
And so the pack is in full cry: the anti-pornography crusaders, hate-mongers and the best of the bigoted howling round livejournal which is hastily culling accounts based on based on the presence of a few trigger words.
And you know what's really depressing? That the only reliable evidence we have tells us that a society with pornography is far safer than the straitly-corseted, strapped-down, hyped-on-denial prison that these fools wish to create. It does make a sensible person wonder how much of this hooraw really is about "protecting children" when the motor mouths wilfully ignore the results of careful investigation, and cling blindly to what they wish to believe.
But hey. Witch-hunts are such fun, aren't they?
Doesn't it make you feel safe, knowing that these people have volunteered themselves for doing your thinking for you? And of course, it's all done in the name of protecting children. Assaults on freedom are always done in the name of protecting the children, because it makes it so much harder to criticize the zealots.
And so the pack is in full cry: the anti-pornography crusaders, hate-mongers and the best of the bigoted howling round livejournal which is hastily culling accounts based on based on the presence of a few trigger words.
And you know what's really depressing? That the only reliable evidence we have tells us that a society with pornography is far safer than the straitly-corseted, strapped-down, hyped-on-denial prison that these fools wish to create. It does make a sensible person wonder how much of this hooraw really is about "protecting children" when the motor mouths wilfully ignore the results of careful investigation, and cling blindly to what they wish to believe.
But hey. Witch-hunts are such fun, aren't they?