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From: mce@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Mark McEntee%CGL)
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Subject: Re: Just a couple of thoughts on Pornography
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 00:17:39 EDT
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In article <909@utcs.uucp> flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>     What might be a good idea is setting up some central locations where
>>"dirty" magazines, movies, etc, are available.  These locations would be the
>>*only* places where they would be sold, and they would sell *only* such
>>items.  This plan has the virtue that people who are offended by pornography
>>would never have to go near these places, and people who like it would not
>>have their supply cut off.  Comments?

> (Alan's reply)
>Sounds fine to me so long as you mean that people would never have to go
>LOGICALLY near these places, rather than PHYSICALLY, if you know what I
>mean.  Staying five miles from an army camp that sends out crazed killers,
>you might feel physically distanced from the military training, but you
>might still end up dead.  If violent pornography is distributed five miles
>away, you might not see it, but you still might end up raped & cut up in
>some alley.  Happens.  What you have to do is transport the people who like
>pornography to a different PLANET, more than 100 light years away, to
>totally prevent the possibility of anything they do influencing the people
>who are scared of or don't like pornography, like me.
>
>Alan J Rosenthal				decvax!utzoo!utcs!flaps
>
>(I hope no one minds me responding two weeks late to this, if there is
>duplication, but I think that what I have to say is fairly interesting.)

No, Alan.  What you have to say is not interesting in the least.  It is just
a rehash of the old anti-porn fantasy ... violent porn is the DOMINANT reason
for some people going out and raping and cutting, or cutting and raping as
the case may be (heard about a weird, grotesque case in W. Germany in which
the order mattered.  Write to me for details.).  Anyhoo, outlawing porn is
not going to solve the matter ... the sickies will not settle down with
suits and ties in the suburbs.  The people who have to go to the different
planet are those who can't handle reality ... what you have to do is appoint
yourself spiritual leader of a flock of sheep ... like Jimmy Jones ... you'll
need them, what use is there in having your way the RIGHT way if you can't
share it with others? ... and head for your favorite life-supporting 
solar system.  Then you'll enjoy life ... until the Outworlders come.