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Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:04:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Duane Hess writes:
> He never stated that films were an objective account of life, nor did I mean
> to imply that they were. My intention is to show that sex and violence
> happens in movies as well as real life. Why invite the government into your
> household to regulate what your children can watch on the television when
> they (your children) can see very similar things in their own daily life?
I don't mean to come down on the side of censorship here, but if you haven't
noticed, we do have laws against public indecency and lewdness and laws against
violence too. So your analogy, it seems to me, works against your stance.
> However, I don't think
> that the media should be censored for the same reason that we shouldn't try
> to censor real life. The only difference between a violent act on TV or one
> at the local mall is that I can choose not to see the one on TV. But I want
> it to be *my* choice.
But we _do_ censor 'real life.' Violence at the mall is against the law. And,
I might add, much less common than violence in the media.
> Is my assertion about Scott's personal life nonsense as you claim? Probably.
> In fact, I will say yes. To make my point, take a quick mental test. Imagine
> a camera following you around for a time 24 hours a day for a month
> (arbitrary time frame). In that amount of time, how many sexual encounters
> will you have, and how many violent episodes will you witness in real life?
> Now take that imaginary camera and publish the imaginary movie. I
> *guarantee* that there will be things on that imaginary film that the
> government wouldn't let through by todays standards. Now, why is it we can
> *experience* those things in real life, but can't *express* them through
> freedom of speech?
I'm not sure I buy the notion that you can't. Who would stop you from either
writing and publishing your account, or making such a movie (boring as it would
be, at least in my case) and sending it out? As far as I can tell there are
damn few things that happen in my life that would be against the law to
broadcast. My sex acts in any random month (or lifetime) have included only
living humans who consented.
Chris
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