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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography
Message-ID: <651@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 04:46:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 04:46:54 1985
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> > ----------
> > > It seems to me that both non-simulated violence and use of children for
> > > sex break laws unrelated to censorship, and can be outlawed without
> > > censorship, which would leave us only in disagreement about the status
> > > of simulated violence and sadism.
> > ----------
> > Note that it should be illegal to MAKE such things but it should
> > not be illegal to sell or possess them.
>   To use the same analogy again: would you try and control angel dust
>   by saying it was illegal to make it but perfectly legal to sell and
>   possess it?
> 
> 	John Chapman

This is not the same analogy.  Making angel dust does not directly harm anyone.
Violence and sexual abuse of children do.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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