• Ech@lemm.ee
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    If your single point is “trying to stop people only makes them do it more”, than no, it’s not a “leap”. That invalidates the very idea of having laws in the first place.

    And fwiw, I’m not arguing in favor of this law, just against the idea you replied with.

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      We didn’t say this about everything (although it is true that some kinds of people are attracted to anything forbidden). We said it’s true of teenagers and porn. Duh.

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        We said it’s true of teenagers and porn. Duh.

        I don’t see any such qualifiers. Do you?

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          Semi-Hemi-Demigod said:

          It’s not that. It’s that if you tell a horny teenager that there’s pictures of naked people somewhere they’ll move heaven and earth to get to it.

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            I wasn’t responding to them, so how does that matter?

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      And fwiw, I’m not arguing in favor of this law, just against the idea you replied with.

      Whatever you’re arguing for or against, you’re arguing like a drunk uncle. You’re taking it to an extreme that it’s obvious no one actually intended, and then arguing against that extreme like it was the original point.

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        I’m not arguing against extremes, I’m arguing against a bad argument. And I’m not drunk, I only wish I were.