• @[email protected]
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    762 years ago

    Trying to stop people from doing something is a sure fire way to guarantee they will do that thing.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      782 years ago

      It’s not that. It’s that if you tell a horny teenager that there’s pictures of naked people somewhere they’ll move heaven and earth to get to it.

    • Ech
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      -682 years ago

      Guess we shouldn’t have any laws about anything, then.

      • @[email protected]
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        602 years ago

        Bit of a leap, my dude.

        Of course we should have laws.

        But for things that are actually harmful.

        For everything else we should have regulation.

        • Ech
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          -422 years ago

          If your single point is “trying to stop people only makes them do it more”, than no, it’s not a “leap”. That invalidates the very idea of having laws in the first place.

          And fwiw, I’m not arguing in favor of this law, just against the idea you replied with.

          • @[email protected]
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            182 years ago

            I just stated a fact, not my opinion on it.

            The leap was you assuming that i think that means there should be no laws. Which, as you can see by my previous response, you were wrong about.

          • Orphie Baby
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            We didn’t say this about everything (although it is true that some kinds of people are attracted to anything forbidden). We said it’s true of teenagers and porn. Duh.

            • Ech
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              02 years ago

              We said it’s true of teenagers and porn. Duh.

              I don’t see any such qualifiers. Do you?

              • Orphie Baby
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                2 years ago

                Semi-Hemi-Demigod said:

                It’s not that. It’s that if you tell a horny teenager that there’s pictures of naked people somewhere they’ll move heaven and earth to get to it.

                • Ech
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                  02 years ago

                  I wasn’t responding to them, so how does that matter?

          • Alien Nathan Edward
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            52 years ago

            And fwiw, I’m not arguing in favor of this law, just against the idea you replied with.

            Whatever you’re arguing for or against, you’re arguing like a drunk uncle. You’re taking it to an extreme that it’s obvious no one actually intended, and then arguing against that extreme like it was the original point.

            • Ech
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              -52 years ago

              I’m not arguing against extremes, I’m arguing against a bad argument. And I’m not drunk, I only wish I were.