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From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Beyond Marchionni and Dubuc (and Winslow) [PORNOGRAPHY]
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:56:23 EST
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Rich Rosen's last point "Gettting rid of the symptoms doesn't get rid
of the disease", (the symptoms being pornography, the disease being
attitudes towards women) isn't so clear to me. It's true that the
pornographers will still have bad attitudes towards women, but what
we (presumably) seek is not the elimination of the disease but the
prevention of its spreading.
   Just as stopping people from sneezing makes them less likely to
transfer their colds to others, getting rid of this symptom might
help prevent the spread of perverse attitudes. Was I uninfluenced
in my attitudes towards women by the magazines I saw when I was
young? I really don't know...
   Well, I don't know how to get rid of the symptoms, (or even
if we ought to--I have this belief in free speech), but I think
the old disease/sysmptoms adage may not really be correct in this case.
   -jfh