> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Harney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 05:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sexually explicit materials, censorship, and strawmen.
>
> > > By allowing sexual material on this list, you deny an underage
> > > person with prudish parents the right to join this list simply so
> > > perverts on list can publically exchange stroking material.
> >
> > Your logic continues to be seriously flawed. ALLOWING does not DENY.
>
> > They are basically opposites. Parents are certainly able to monitor
> > what their children do on the Internet and/or tell them
> what they may
> > or may not read. Your statement is ludicrous.
>
> By your logic, allowing someone the right to commit murder
> does not deny anyone their rights, including the victim,
> because, by your argument, the victim *chose* to be a victim,
> and living is just a convenience.
That doesn't equate at all, because we do have the right to Life.
> The premise behind *equal* rights (not unlimited rights,
> equal rights) is that everyone has the same rights. Your
> rights end where my rights begin. You do not have the right
> to take property that is not yours. You do not have the
> right to asault another person. Why do you lack these
> rights? Because if you have those rights, and excercize them,
> it denies another of their rights. If someone cannot
> participate in the list (IE an underage
> listmember) because someone excercises their rights, then
> that right has deprived that person of their rights.
Perhaps, but you do not have the right to Only Hear What I Want To Hear.
-j-
