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(...) Well, I don't watch TV much, so I wouldn't know... (...) So you are comfortable calling a image depicting child molestation art, merely because the slime who created it says it is? So what use is art, if it's anything and everything anyone (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Am *I* comfortable with it? Not at all. As stated, I didn't appreciate a red stripe on a black canvas. That was just a stripe! There is a bigger picture, and I think the history of my posts have said again and again--I have the freedom to do (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't believe that after all these years, i still do the \'s wrong at times :) (URL) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Warning! Dave Koudys is espousing Libertarian rhetoric in the above :-) (...) Just as a note, the US Supreme Court ruled on this very topic this week and for once, by 5 to 4, got it right. (they ruled that depictions of acts by adults in a way (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I'll try at a definition I can live with: Art is that which is created/performed/presented with the intent of invoking an emotional reaction from those to whom it is presented. Child porn - Art? Only if it's the intent of the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, I thought he was from England;-) (...) Yes, leave it to the scum to circumvent law to appease their perversions. The slippery slope slants both ways. Our society will be hurt by this. -John (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Will you give the poor guy a break for his typo already? He obviously meant to type "crow paddies," which equally obviously refer to rice farms that have an abundance of crows feeding on them. Duh! Dave! (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Have you read the proposed law? It was far to broad to enacted or objectively enforced. Any movie that portrayed high schoolers in adult situations, nothing graphic mind you, would be considered child pornography under this law. That is only a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There's that word again. And here's another anecdote from my storied history: While in college I met a 20-year-old woman with Turner's syndrome; she had only a single chromosome, she never developed secondary sexual characteristics, and she (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There's the Christian ideal, 'Hate the sin, not the sinner'. Name calling (a la 'scum') does not help in resolution of the problem. Quoting Pastor Doug Mckenzie " My topic today is bugs... Everyone hates bugs But why kill them, If everyone (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: While in college I met a 20-year-old woman with Turner's syndrome; (...) Wow. Even amoebas have more than that, IIRC..... (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I did mention that she was short. Should have read "only a single X chromosome." In any case, you didn't address the salient point that under the too-broad law you seem to support, the woman's rights to expression would be curtailed (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sorry-- couldn't resist:-) (...) It is an interesting scenario. I am not for the government restricting the rights of adults so much as I am concerned about protecting minors from disgusting things adults like to do. Although she *is* free to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nicely said! The second someone's actions negatively impact on someone else, is where the line is drawn. If a person gets his kicks by reading dirty magazines, he has the freedom to do so. If he leaves the magazine laying around for kids to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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