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Originally Posted by Pushka
Kenny Kenny Kenny you missed a couple of words to totally misconstrue what I said. I said "violence in a movie"
Unless the studios are now murdering people to make their movies real, then there no one is hurt.
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You compared pedophilia (an actual act) to violence in a movie (a fictional act) and then pretended it was the action itself, not the reality of it, that made the difference. That's comparing apples to ... pictures of apples. Let's switch it around: is it more harmful to children to see pedophilia in a movie, or to be murdered in real life?
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Inappropriate sex is very easy to define. Any sexual act that is illegal is inappropriate! Or are we going to argue the legality of the law as it currently stands.
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First, there's the question "Illegal ... where?" There are sexual acts that are legal in some states in the US that are illegal in others (and yes, we're talking consenting adults here, and a government that intrudes in their bedrooms). And there are sexual acts that are legal in some countries that are illegal in others. Given that some of these jurisdictions say that if a person within their jurisdiction sees something that is legal where it was created, but illegal where the viewer is (which is, in fact, exactly what happened here) they should be able to have that person who was never in their location arrested and brought to them to be prosecuted, this is a rather important consideration.
Second, you're confusing legal and right. For example, in countries with sharia law, it's legal for the authorities to cut off the hand of a thief. Is that also right? In those countries, it is illegal for a person to choose what religion they wish to belong to. Is that, then, wrong? I'm not sure if they've sorted it out yet, but a couple of years ago, playing computer games was illegal in Greece (the intent of the law was to ban gambling, but it was net cafe owners with games like online chess who were arrested). In a remarkable number of countries, including those most of us live in, it wasn't all that long ago, historically speaking, that enslaving other human beings was perfectly legal, whereas helping a slave to escape was a crime. So slavery was right and freedom for slaves was wrong? What have
you done that is a crime in Saudi Arabia, China, or even Greece?
Legal and illegal ... right and wrong ... so a picture of a sexual act between a man and a woman is appropriate, but a picture of the exact same act between two women is inappropriate? Except ten miles away, where it's appropriate again? Appropriateness is defined by one's physical location, and it all changes if you walk across an invisible line?
The law dictates what is legal --
not what is right. And those two do not always match up. I strongly suggest you read
Letter from a Birmingham Jail. One has to deal with the consequences of the law, or get bad laws changed, but one should never allow the law to replace one's conscience. Turning in an escaped slave was legal and mandatory, but it was never right.