[AnonymousPlanet]

I believe this to be one of the fundamental questions that will charaterize this new century: How is humankind going to cope with so much of humankind? How to deal with "someone's wrong on the internet"?

There seem to be these possible answers: a) Everyone agrees to one narrative and moral standard. b) Everyone sticks to their little bit of the world and guards it with walls c) Live and let live and do not feed the trolls, cause haters will hate. So be it.

Any one of a) or b) put to extremes wouldn't make a nice world to live in.

It would either come with a global harmonization effort that will feel opressive. (This is what you are feeling in this instance)

Or it would be a world comprised of iron curtains. With whatever harmonization and opression going on within each region.

In any way, c) seems to me the most favorable outcome. But I have no idea how to get there since a) and b) appear to be the popular choices nowadays.

[wccrawford]

The problem with 'live and let live' is that you either choose to let people hurt other people, or you resolve to stop it.

If you resolve to stop it, then you have to deal with that problem that everyone thinks different things are harmful.

Some people honestly believe that porn is harmful to society and the individuals within it. It's not enough to just say "it's not harmful" because they believe it.

And I can't even say that it's not. Promiscuous sex transmits diseases that absolutely do harm people, and there are psychological aspects that I'm not even knowledgeable enough to start giving an opinion on.

[chmod775]

Firstly, porn != sex. There's no disease that can be transmitted through pornography that I know of.

Secondly, the human race will die out pretty fast without sex.

Food may kill you too, yet it's still needed so we can live™.

So clearly this isn't an useful criterion.

[colordrops]

Self- or consensual "harm" should be excluded from anybody else's business. Most sexual activity fits under this category. It's not a difficult problem.

[the8472]

> The problem with 'live and let live' is that you either choose to let people hurt other people, or you resolve to stop it.

Has the choice not already been made with westphalian sovereignty?