Comments on: The War Against USENET Symbolises an Assault on Free Speech http://techrights.org/2009/04/02/the-war-against-usenet/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lauren http://techrights.org/2009/04/02/the-war-against-usenet/comment-page-1/#comment-63000 Lauren Tue, 05 May 2009 17:41:28 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=7914#comment-63000 or we could kill all women so there wouldn't be any left for men to rape or we could kill all women so there wouldn’t be any left for men to rape

]]> By: aeshna23 http://techrights.org/2009/04/02/the-war-against-usenet/comment-page-1/#comment-61512 aeshna23 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:39:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=7914#comment-61512 I get so angry that the fight against child pornography is held to justify any stupidity or evil imaginable. I'm a moral pluralist, that is, I believe that there are many values and that these values can't just be reduced to single (unidimensional) yardstick. We have to make rational decisions among different values that can't be weighed a single scale against each other. We must balance our needs for freedom and economic and technological progress against the possibility that a child will be molested (that is, if we grant the rather questionable assumption that child pornography causes molestation when paedophilia could be causing both child pornography and molestation). Here's a concrete example of how preventing child molesting doesn't trump everything: we could just castrate all men above 18 and keep the semen of 17 years old boys to fertilize women. I'm sure this would reduce child molestation. I get so angry that the fight against child pornography is held to justify any stupidity or evil imaginable. I’m a moral pluralist, that is, I believe that there are many values and that these values can’t just be reduced to single (unidimensional) yardstick. We have to make rational decisions among different values that can’t be weighed a single scale against each other. We must balance our needs for freedom and economic and technological progress against the possibility that a child will be molested (that is, if we grant the rather questionable assumption that child pornography causes molestation when paedophilia could be causing both child pornography and molestation).

Here’s a concrete example of how preventing child molesting doesn’t trump everything: we could just castrate all men above 18 and keep the semen of 17 years old boys to fertilize women. I’m sure this would reduce child molestation.

]]>