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China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown
Clandestine_Blaze writes "Chinese police have arrested 5,394 people — with another 4,186 criminal cases in the works — in one of the largest crackdowns on Internet porn in the country. Even more arrests are expected in 2010, according to the Ministry of Public Security's website (In Chinese or Google translated into English). According to the Reuters article on the crackdown, one of the justifications was that the pornography was 'threatening the emotional health of children.' From the English translation of the Ministry of Public Security's website linked above, it appears that certain provinces are also offering 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan rewards, per person, for reporting illegal websites to the government."
No doubt this will outrage many here given the demographic is slanted towards the male (and probably the younger male) but I don't consider exposure to porn healthy.
We don't expose children to porn if we can help it because we don't believe in distorting their minds, but we turn a blind eye to adults (who may also be weak minded) using it effectively as a recreational drug.
If you start immersing yourself in material with racist (for instance) views you should not be surprised if some of them begin to rub off on you. The same goes for significant exposure to pornography.
In the scheme of things pornography exposure is not the end of the world but it does subtly alter your thought processes, and not for the better.
If we were truly honest about porn it would come with a mental health warning.
Fascism is a left-wing ideology, because it is a collectivist ideology. It's the same thing with nazism (national socialism). Fascism is when you are allowed to have property, but the collective decides what you can do with it. Socialism is when everything is owned by the collective. Right-wing ideology is about individualism, and among other things, letting you own and control your property.
As a leftist you should be in favor of fascism.
If God (the moral agent) does not exist, then there is no concept of "wrong", right? We are all just random atoms floating around.