I don't like porn, and I think it can be monumentally harmful. I think the government being able to set requirements to visit websites is more harmful.
I don't want the gubmint controlling this either, but "it's the parents job" is a lolbertarian argument that never worked. I'm not going to make any arguments about how harmful porn is to society, but let's pretend it's very harmful, for various reasons. Go with undecidedmask's assertion that it's one of the most dangerous weapons around today. If that's true then we've got a huge problem on our hands. How do we solve that problem? The parents failed. What do you as a man of courage and honor do?
For many people, "It can't be solved" isn't an acceptable answer. So far I think fauxgnaws had the best idea from a technical point of view, but that does nothing to fix a culture where lots of parents are fine with their kids viewing porn. (or they don't think it's a big deal anyway)
"It doesn't work" is itself an argument that doesn't work. Especially because, historically, the government is going to come in and fuck things up worse. Hell, that was basically the creation of the Federal Reserve; "Hey, the economy isn't working, put us in charge!" Yeah, no.
For many people, "It can't be solved" isn't an acceptable answer.
Yeah, but people not finding it acceptable, again, often leads to very bad things. Because some things are really hard to solve, and this is one of them. Throwing the government at it is just going to make it worse. "We must solve this issue that is super complex and probably not immediately solvable" tends to be the leftwing answer. It shouldn't matter if the people find it acceptable or not, it should matter if the proposed solution will actually fix the problem. If it won't, let's not implement further totalitarian control just to make people happy because we're Doing Something.
I don't want the gubmint controlling this either, but "it's the parents job" is a lolbertarian argument that never worked. I'm not going to make any arguments about how harmful porn is to society, but let's pretend it's very harmful, for various reasons. Go with undecidedmask's assertion that it's one of the most dangerous weapons around today. If that's true then we've got a huge problem on our hands. How do we solve that problem? The parents failed. What do you as a man of courage and honor do?
For many people, "It can't be solved" isn't an acceptable answer. So far I think fauxgnaws had the best idea from a technical point of view, but that does nothing to fix a culture where lots of parents are fine with their kids viewing porn. (or they don't think it's a big deal anyway)
"It doesn't work" is itself an argument that doesn't work. Especially because, historically, the government is going to come in and fuck things up worse. Hell, that was basically the creation of the Federal Reserve; "Hey, the economy isn't working, put us in charge!" Yeah, no.
Yeah, but people not finding it acceptable, again, often leads to very bad things. Because some things are really hard to solve, and this is one of them. Throwing the government at it is just going to make it worse. "We must solve this issue that is super complex and probably not immediately solvable" tends to be the leftwing answer. It shouldn't matter if the people find it acceptable or not, it should matter if the proposed solution will actually fix the problem. If it won't, let's not implement further totalitarian control just to make people happy because we're Doing Something.