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• Monday, October 6, 2008 06:13 AM

  correction...

  The transference neurosis is incredible in these people although the judge could say that he was just 'following orders' and maybe he does find it morally repugnant that this stuff is going on but ones own personal degree of 'moral repugnance' is hardly a measure to effect a cleaning up of society.

  Isn't that what killed the many attempts to regulate pornography in the past?

  Isn't war pornography? It appeals to the base instincts in people driven to a large extent by their base instincts.

  I always found it a slamming condemnation of the goody goodies that the sight of a female breast or the flash of public hair was some how so much more dangerous than actors spraying bullets and blowing everything up. Somehow 'love' and 'sensuality' are dirty and death and violence and carnage are so much better for society. The MPAA should be in no way responsible for gauging the content of movies. See 'This Film Not Yet Rated' for an expose on the disgusting agenda of the MPAA and the reckless way they exert their power over Hollywood.

  We DO have 'morality police'. They just don't club people on our street corners, yet...

  As a charming aside, I got involved in a discussion with the spouse and some of her friends. They professed a need to 'cleanse the internet of all porn' and couldn't figure out why it couldn't be done. I said that it was a total waste of time and was soundly condemned as being 'supportive' of degrading women and of pornography in general.

  I then pointed out that the Internets are filled with millions of systems. All you need is a computer and a domain name and you can start your own website. How can someone or something visit every computer and judge the content and shut it down? The task is monumental. Then, what standard do you use if you could actually find them. Some people find European statuary disgusting. Some find old master art disgusting. Who decides and what recourse does society have to see what they have discarded? Is it no different than the puritanical masses that took chisel and hammer to so many statues of the past? Is it any different than the Taliban shelling the reliefs carved into the sandstone walls in the desert?

  Just because one person or a group of people find something objectionable does not give them the right to censor that from society at large.

  —Pinky Read Pinky's other letters
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