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Originally Posted by anamardoll
My objection is that these sorts of things MAGICALLY! only ever get applied to books with Naughty Bits in them. There's a LOT of fiction that I find depraved; very little of it is erotica.
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I agree. I find the books and movies with graphically depicted violence depraved (think the Nightmare on Elm Street types). Consequently, I neither read the books nor view the movies. But I do not think they should be banned.
I also think the National Rifle Association's literature is morally depraved, so I neither support the NRA nor read its literature, but neither do I seek to ban it.
However, a greater case, I think, can be made to ban the graphically violent types of books and movies because of the copycat possibilities and the potential harm to third parties than to ban erotica (unless, of course, one believes like Rick Santorum that sexual pleasure is the definition of depravity, or believes like the NRA that shooting high school classmates is just a sign of migrating from adolescence to adulthood).
In neither case do I believe a ban is a good idea. Education is a much better response.