The Price of Pleasure, Deconstructed Part II

[fierceawakening]

Ernest Greene has posted his next installment of his in-depth critique of the documentary "The Price of Pleasure," supposedly a fair examination of the issue of pornography. I linked his first essay here.

From this installment:

When we cut back to the girl with the messy face, she’s still smiling, but now we know she’s just pretending, right? Even

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[kawakiisakazuki]

Reminds me of this quote:
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- H. L. Mencken

[fierceawakening]

Yeah, exactly. Limiting liberty always begins with shutting up the extremists, the (real or imagined) "terrorists," but it always winds up hurting regular people with unpopular opinions.

Whenever I read MacKinnon on the 1st Amendment, I always wonder how long radical feminists who think free speech protections are a sham would expect to last without them.

[miz_evolution]

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it"