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From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.women
Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
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Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 20:11:05 EDT
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Both Todd and Scott, in his follow up, are right.  This is why it is so important
that people speakup and voice their opinions about things such as porn, freedom
of the press, etc...  Each community will make up its own rules governing the
morality, or lack there of, of their members.  If people do not speakup and vote
on these issues we will be controlled by the loud voiced minorities that do so.

Having said that I shoud now add that I am against banning pornography for the
reasons that Todd mentioned, because it could all too easily lead to a stifling
of other forms of expression, and most of all because I do not think that outlaw-
ing porn will lead to better relations between those people who don't respect
each other now.  The denegretory (sp?) aspect of porn is a symptom of a sickness
in some people, it's not the cause.  If we sweep it under the rug then it will
just become more desirous for some as it gains more of the quality of a forbidden
fruit.
 
                      -Walter.
"Never get the mistaken belief that Life is fair, it isn't.
Yet never stop trying to make it so."

***** CLAIMER: all of the above is the opinion of the author but we make no
               guarentees as to authors saneness of body or mind.


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