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by 0x4974h 1260 days ago
I'm frankly sick and tired of the "what about the children" argument especially in this context.

In America violence and weapons are pushed onto "the children" daily. American military make video games to teach warfare tactics to "the children" and desensitize them to gruesome acts of killing. "The children" can bring bullet proof backpacks to school, and learn how to use weapons at a young age.

But god forbid they learn about or see a sex act, which by the way quite literally is what ensures the continuation of the human species. That would be awful.

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> In America violence and weapons are pushed onto "the children" daily.

A double-negative is not a positive.

> But god forbid they learn about or see a sex act, which by the way quite literally is what ensures the continuation of the human species.

Sex, which ensures the continuation of the human species, is not the same as watching porn. No porn is needed for human-beings to know what to do.

Come on! You know this argument is bullshit.

Saying "what about issue Y" (gun violence) says nothing about issue X (pornography harming children). We ought to oppose evil wherever we see it, not ignore evil because we see a greater evil elsewhere.