Florida Legislature and Pornography

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This week the Florida Legislature passed a resolution labeling pornography as a public health risk. Is this a first step to banning pornography in that state? I could see this going to the SCOTUS.
 
Bon_Croix said:
This week the Florida Legislature passed a resolution labeling pornography as a public health risk. Is this a first step to banning pornography in that state? I could see this going to the SCOTUS.
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I doubt that. It’s not a law just a statement. Honestly, it smells like table scrap meat thrown to a conservative base.
 
Bon_Croix said:
This week the Florida Legislature passed a resolution labeling pornography as a public health risk. Is this a first step to banning pornography in that state? I could see this going to the SCOTUS.
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Florida just experienced a record-breaking mass shooting, and this is the “public health risk” the Florida GOP chooses to take seriously. Awesome.
 
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This is an “easy lift” to please their Christian base who don’t like sex, but do like guns.
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Or, just maybe, it’s a legitimate recognition of a severe problem.

The fact that his declaration is temporally proximate to the shooting doesn’t change the fact that pornography is a real issue.
 
They just had an 8 hour floor debate in their state senate concerning gun violence. They’re trying.

Pornography is still deserving of public health attention. Should it supercede gun violence? I don’t know.
 
What about the sex trafficker who started off with softcore porn and eventually ended up selling human flesh? What if your sister ends up in his ‘possession’?

They’re both major issues.

It shouldn’t be either/or, but both/and.

The human person deserves protection from both murder and objectification.
 
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What about the sex trafficker who started off with softcore porn and eventually ended up selling human flesh? What if your cousin ends up in his ‘possession’?
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  1. She’s my sister, and 2. Correlation is not causation. There’s nothing in your statement to suggest that he did what he did because of porn, or that porn made it easier for him to chop people up and take them to market. If these lawmakers were merely cracking down on unsafe practices within the porn industry, I’d be 100% on board with that, but that’s not what they’re doing. They want to prevent people from watching it in the privacy of their homes. I’m not arguing that watching porn is moral or that it’s not causing cultural issues, but no mothers are out there weeping over the caskets of children who died due to watching porn.
 
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It’s a waste of time. They can’t stop porn unless they ban the internet. The legislature can’t tackle this problem. The solution is lies within the Church.
 
Also, the likelihood of my sister falling into the hands of sex traffickers is next to none, considering she goes almost everywhere with either my mom or one of my college-aged brothers. However, if someone were to bring an assault rifle to church or the library with intent to kill, there’s not much they can do to protect her. Bullets defy even the best safe parenting practices
 
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The government can educate children of the dangers of that poison. That’s something that can be done.
 
Absolutely. Which is why I am okay with gun violence taking precedence at the moment.
 
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The government can educate children of the dangers of that poison
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Very true. But the primary responsiblity for education lies with parents and priests. I don’t think the state should have much to say about morality because that’s what the Church must do.
 
The government has the power to ban pornography. That they don’t when they ban innocuous things like light bulbs tells you they want it to be used.
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It’s a waste of time. They can’t stop porn unless they ban the internet.
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They can’t stop it but they can make it almost non existent for most people. The government can get rid of gambling and copyright violating websites. They just want porn websites to be used so they let them be.
 
I’m not even saying morally- porn is stronger than heroin. It has trackable, concrete, scientific, negative effects on the human body and brain.
 
Yes, but access to that requires absurd effort. The average 12 year old (average age of first male viewing of porn) has no idea what Tor or Silk Road, or Onion encryption is- All nesecary for dark web travel.
 
My position is that the government should not legislate unless it’s to prevent harm. I don’t think they should ban pornography, alcohol, drugs, gambling etc. I think the government exists to promote life, liberty and happiness. They should generally keep out of our business. The Church and the community should enforce morality.
 
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