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Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns
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Imagine living an existence where you can't jerk it to whatever you want.
I get what you're saying but there's quite a lot of illegal stuff you really shouldn't jerk to.
I don't want to jerk it to those things, but I also get what you're saying.
Mmmm, is there illegal stuff you shouldn't jerk to? Who gets to decide, where does this "shouldn't" word come into it? Who says you shouldn't? Why does someone else's uptight puritanical fears get to limit what I look at or jerk off to? "should" or "shouldn't" never seem to come with explanations as to why.
Because they’re straight-up illegal and harmful to people. I’m talking CSAM, Necrophilia, and stuff like that.
I have no issue with anything if there’s no real people or all the people included are consenting, but there’s lines that shouldn’t be crossed.
Well I have to go along with you on that - necrophilia? BLECH. CSAM, if it really shows abuse, absolutely I'm against it. I'm a horror fan and once had a copy of a magazine mailed to me, I literally had to go in with scissors and remove the photos (from an underground movie) of necrophilic abuse of a corpse - that's just beyond the pall of what I'm willing to look at.
So yes obviously there are lines that I personally would never cross. But just because something is illegal doesn't mean I automatically agree it's always wrong for everyone. Like gambling, which is illegal here in Utah. But I do go to Wendover and gamble, so does most of our population here. And they're not ending up addicted to it, or losing all their money, or doing anything but having a good time.
So when people say "you shouldn't gamble," I want to say, "that's my decision to make, not yours."
It sucks gopher nads, but not in a fun way. Especially being a liberal, and gay in such an environment. You'd think I was the worst criminal since Jeff Dahmer, yet I've never not towed the line, not payed my tithing, or dared to go out or date someone. I know what the mormons can do to someone they hate. And hate, they most certain do, and you do NOT want to cross that line with them.