I think there is also a matter of degree, here. Being forced into illegal software would certainly not gall me or offend my ethical sensibilities nearly as much as being forced to kill someone. I don't think the two are at all in the same league.
It's possible that the for-profit publisher might still be useful as a filter. If everyone were to self-publish on the web, it would be difficult to sort the signal from the noise.
He didn't say that sexually explicit material, artwork and books were new. He said that pornagraphy was a new concept. The people who have had these works of art and these books, etc. as a part of their cultures for centuries do not consider them "pornagraphy" but as art, or as educational. It's only recently that openness about sex began to be considered a Bad Thing.
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Well, "freezing" is not a temperature, merely a convenient local designation. Or so the newly discovered planet would seem to prove.
-E
I think there is also a matter of degree, here. Being forced into illegal software would certainly not gall me or offend my ethical sensibilities nearly as much as being forced to kill someone. I don't think the two are at all in the same league.
-E
It's possible that the for-profit publisher might still be useful as a filter. If everyone were to self-publish on the web, it would be difficult to sort the signal from the noise.
-MG
He didn't say that sexually explicit material, artwork and books were new. He said that pornagraphy was a new concept. The people who have had these works of art and these books, etc. as a part of their cultures for centuries do not consider them "pornagraphy" but as art, or as educational. It's only recently that openness about sex began to be considered a Bad Thing.