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Re: Swearing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:27:25 GMT
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johnneal@uswest!stopspammers!.net
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Christopher Lannan wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Miller writes:
> > John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > > It's useful if you are a pervert trying to pass off obscenities as art.
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> > "Pornography!" is a useful label if you're a reactionary who is frightened
> > by art that might make people think.
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> > --
> > Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
> > Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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> Here's my definition of pornography-(in jest, a little)
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> pornography- the word a prude uses to describe media which portrays folks who
> are having more fun than he is.
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> I guess my point here is that words like "obscene" "pornography" and "decent"
> say more about the speaker than the thing the speaker is describing.
I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene
that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!"
-John
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> Chris
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Swearing?
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| (...) But this, too, is circular, since your question implies that a human being who doesn't say "That's sick!" is not normal and decent. Dave! (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Art! or Not Art!
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| (...) who (...) "decent" (...) How about this one - a parent eating his child! Sick! Cannibalism! Disgusting. Certainly Not Art! And certainly on paper, this really seems like a candidate. Goya's "Saturn Devouring one of his Children". (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Swearing?
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| (...) Here's my definition of pornography-(in jest, a little) pornography- the word a prude uses to describe media which portrays folks who are having more fun than he is. I guess my point here is that words like "obscene" "pornography" and "decent" (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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