More from the ongoing "Christian" vs video games drama
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That wasn’t what he said at all. He stated that if you see ankles and it tempts you just over the picture, get away from it. If a pretty anime picture is advertising for McDonalds and you shrug when you walk by, it’s fine. He also stated that there is a hard stop for media when it’s created for the sole purpose of lustful acts (porn sites and the like.)
As for social norms, it’s up to us to set the social norms. By removing media we find objectionable, we create an underground of temptation by those who have not learned the downside of sin. By teaching people to avoid said media, the media goes away or is just straight ineffective. It’s not that the media exists is the problem, but men have forgotten about how to avoid the temptation of sin.
Go watch his video again. He was completely separating the temptation of lust from environmental factors, putting all blame on the men who fall to lust. He is only half right. We are responsible for our own actions, but his argument rests on the false premise that we're not part of a collective, a group, and that we have no responsibility for other members of our group. That is an antithetical viewpoint to the "love thy neighbor" commandment of Jesus.
Why do you think so much media is intentionally designed to draw the male gaze? Even people who aren't intentionally designing their art, media, or entertainment to drive men to lust, still know the nature of men, that "sex sells", and it's aimed almost universally at men, to put sexually attractive women in their products, to sell the sex appeal, purely to drive engagement from men. That is intentionally designed lustful temptation.
However, most art, media, and entertainment made nowadays is specifically designed to be destructive. It's designed to tempt men into falling into lust, to weaken and control men, which is the exact same intent and design for why porn is so widely available in the West, or anywhere globohomo wishes to subvert.
I agree with this. If we truly love our neighbors, we'll shape a society, an environment, which is conducive to healthy living, so that our neighbors aren't tempted and fall into sin.
Again, I disagree with this statement. You and Shad are intentionally ignoring the environmental factors at play. Men becoming addicted to porn directly correlates with its widespread availability. Drug use is directly tied to the availability of drugs. Alcohol use is directly tied to the availability of alcohol. Smoking is directly tied to the availability of cigarettes. And, the usage of those things is also tied to how society treats them, if they're pushed or not, accepted or not.
We're in the downward slide from the peak of civilization in the West. This is the period where people eschew the responsibilities, lessons, laws, and traditions of their ancestors, who conquered, built, and maintained civilization. Instead of these burdens, people increasingly shirk them in favor of increasing comforts, pleasure, and hedonism, a never ending pursuit of a new dopamine high that only results in a death spiral for the individual and society. This is abundantly clear everywhere throughout society, at every level. This is the time where we should be the most restrictive of what temptations people are exposed to, in an effort to deny or delay the slide of civilization toward collapse, if that can be achieved at all. This all rests, however, on the premise that our civilization deserves to be saved, and that we love our neighbors.