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Adult Video Site And Texas Age Verification

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by mrhansduck, Mar 15, 2024.

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  1. Mar 18, 2024 #101
    mrhansduck

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    It's always been interesting to me that our age restrictions on alcohol are understandably designed to protect young people but they can be prosecuted for breaking the laws that were intended to protect them. With respect to pornography, I may be wrong but I assume most pre-pubescent kids aren't interested in looking at it and might even be grossed out by it at that age. By middle school and high school, many kids I knew were already sexually active, but we didn't have mobile phones on us back then of course. Today, there are stories about teens creating and sharing their own photos and videos. I suppose they could be prosecuted if we think that would be a deterrent. But if we're not going to arrest kids for the actual sex, it would seem like a weird result to me to punish them for merely watching videos of sex.
     
  2. Mar 18, 2024 #102
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    “DirtyGatorInGeorgia” is concerned.
     
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    Lawyers are always happy to create a new revenue stream.
     
  4. Mar 18, 2024 #104
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    Wondering about the effects of porn exposure to teens compared to what little we knew as teens pre-internet. Thinking less sex in back seats ‘cause how do you do stuff like that in the back of a car?
     
  5. Mar 18, 2024 #105
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    You equated the two issues in an appeal to hypocrisy.
    1. No, it doesn't.
    2. I could quickly find multiple studies supporting the idea that laws aimed at restricting gun access affect gun deaths. What studies do you have supporting the idea that porn causes significant harm to minors and these age verification laws alleviate or reduce that harm?
    Here you are again equating the two. I'm willing to burden gun rights to some degree because there are studies supporting the efficacy of those laws and because unregulated or lightly regulated access to guns kills people. In other words, there is evidentiary support for the laws and they impact a very significant societal harm.

    Last I checked, porn didn't kill a person in Jax Beach yesterday or slaughter kids in Parkland. If you want to justify burdening people's rights, you need to prove up the harms and demonstrate that the law is targeted at alleviating or mitigating those harms. You haven't done that.
    Uh huh. Now, tell me how many kids not watching porn is equivalent to one life saved from gun violence. If you stop 10,000 kids from watching porn, does that equal one child who would have died from gun violence absent a gun safety law? How about 100,000 kids being stopped from watching porn? What is a child's life worth to you?
    I can only laugh at this one. I told you to start using common sense after you called me a snowflake, and you're complaining that I inserted a personal attack? What an unserious comment.
     
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