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ha bloody ha
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:19 pm
by sandie
"Banning porn means that the authorities get to see it all, and we don't. If it depraves and corrupts that means we have depraved and corrupt authorities, and if it doesn't, then what's the point of the ban?"
interesting quote from the international union of sex workers.
Re: ha bloody ha
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:28 pm
by Bayleaf
It's always the argument of the censors, Sandie:
It won't corrupt me (I am immune) I'm doing it to protect other people, for their own good. The basis of repression everywhere.
Re: ha bloody ha
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:01 pm
by Wendy
This is a quote from C S Lewis I keep framed on on display in my home. I think it sums up what many of us believe about such things as censorship etc.
'Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience'
Wendy XXX