What if the person in the "middle" is there because they don't trust the information yet or think they have an incomplete understanding?
I'm far from a Rand hater but this sounds like judgmental moral absolutism based on a binary view of the world. Not everything is a either or question and not everything is a gray scale. Somethings are binary, other things are grey scale, and sometimes you just have to have the wisdom to suspect that you may not have enough information to make a choice.
The argument assumes that the individual has all the information to make a choice but doesn't want to. That could very well be true for a given individual but it is not going to be true for every individual.
Good conversation. I prefer podcasts. https://podcast.app/timcast-irl-biden-flailing-as-over-k-migrants-spark-border-crisis-wcol-allen-west-e131193914/
Fuck this place.
No, don't be a quitter. Stay and keep pointing out stuff you think is wrong. Taking your oars out of the water won't help us. And also I saw that claim about Trump the other day. I wasn't happy about it. So by you pointing out that it was wrong saved me. Stay.
I have news for you. People were exposing themselves to each other long before we even had written language. Combating the use of porn is in itself not the worst idea in the world but how you go about it and for whom is the issue here, not porn itself.
If you want young people to want real lives which means looking forward to marriage and children then you have to educate them how to get there and give them an environment in that basic core of life is within reach.
The porn and smut purveyors can claim that they are meeting a market need but this is a highly debatable area because they are also leading young people away from their promise and potential. The same can no longer be said for adults who have already made their choices in life. They are adults and not your property to be managed.
I'm with you on making sure we have a good platform for the young but to give them that we have a lot more work than just taking on porn. We have to destroy the Federal Reserve cartel which is constantly destroying the dollar which in turn makes the future look very unpromising for our young. When our young get discouraged by a overwhelming future they much more readily turn to things that are a distraction and dead end.
Porn, body modification, political tantrums are all symptoms of a society that is melting down because the future is getting further and further away from people. Look, lets make this very clear. All creatures inherently know that the only real future is had through off spring. If you can't successfully produce offspring, you have no future. Only an eventual dead end.
The realization of that dead end is what leads many people to despair and hopelessness. The promise of a future is what leads people to be productive, happy and at peace with themselves and the world.
Our problem is not that porn exists, our problem is that politicians, money changers and internationalists have been robbing our future for generations. Bring back the promise of a future and the porn will become a minor annoyance. Getting rid of the porn just in an attempt to get the promise of the future back is attacking a symptom and not the cause.
It's all about control. Every single "crisis", world war, 9/11 events, etc are always used to justify to taking something away from the people in the name sEcURitY. Same thing goes for school, nightclub/hotel window, campus shootings. There is no excuse that gets by the oligarchs for the straight up purpose of making us all tax cattle slaves.