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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
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* Freedom of speech -
- - You don't have to like what people are saying, but they do have the right to say it (print it, etc). So long as your not saying it about a protected group. At that point you can loose your all your money, if not your liberty too.
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Freedom of speech. Interesting. You can't stand up in a theater and shout FIRE. Someone could get hurt. A person can, however, write a book on the safest way (for the pedophile) to have sexual relations with a child.
I may be wrong but I think he's supposed to have warned against penetration.
[Piper's comment: He gives obligatory lip service to that, especially in the beginning, but then talks about how it's not so bad, and gives advice on how to do it - like using finger cots for little boys - to protect them, of course.]
Some will say that all censorship is, ultimately, bad. Slippery slope, and all that stuff. For the most part I tend to agree. The problem comes in when people insist that it's always bad.
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When people insist on everything being one way or another - black or white - you have great piles of manure piling up at each end of the bell curve.
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Exactly.
Slippery slope arguments are so easy, they've become an over-used crutch. But they are not all by themselves adequate to determine the best choices, or we would always need to reject anything that put us on one.
But we don't. We take positions and approve of laws that put us on slippery slopes every single day.
Avoiding slippery slopes is itself a slippery slope!
