Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not saying this because I disagree with you; porn does need stronger and more direct local legislation regarding production, consumption, and oversight; thus making it “legal”. However, just because something is popular doesn’t make it right. Murder is extremely popular - look at the murder rates around the world, it’s obviously a highly popular activity. Should we make that legal too? At what rate of popularity do we stop making things legal to serve the will of the mob?

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        If every country in the world had a murder rate equivalent to the worst ones, and every murder was done by someone who had never killed before, 0.2% of people would be murderers. I mean, I agree with the idea that popular isn’t right, but, murder isn’t popular anywhere in the world, and I do think there’s some “popularity” threshold where something that may not be “right”, should still be legal - but I’m thinking that’s like “if 60% of the population does it, maybe we shouldn’t try and throw 60% in jail”, and not, “if 2 people in a thousand do something”