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Cheering for Loss
15 years ago
I see they updated the TOS/AUP again. Another brick in the wall, and all that. But people are happy. Okay. One caveat; I don't blame the administration here and I only slightly blame the companies responsible.
I don't self-identify as a porn artist. That is, I've drawn adult pictures sometimes, but it's not the bulk of my expression, and I'm very, very bad at it. Trust me, I am. But even if I'd look down on others who are heavily into it I wouldn't cheer for them being banned because of that. You don't get to pick and choose and piece together your perfect society based on what you're comfortable with and what not. This is why the majority shouldn't decide on the rights of the minority.
I'm projecting a larger issue onto a tiny one, but I think there's merit hidden in it. I'll explain the political relevance with a similar situation with a different outcome. If companies decided they didn't like, say, tits. What would happen? There'd be outrage purely due to numbers. And I'd be with them, even though.. I don't really like tits. Even if there'd be a titban, there's still the idea that there was a good fight, and the necessity to fight it. Eventually things will buckle under the strain. People would feel that the way to treat a bad law is to see it as a provocation to break it, as a sense of civil responsibility.
You don't cheer for a loss of liberties because you weren't using them, or they were inconvenient for you. These things however are battles to be won in the far future. People will be able to coexist regardless of gender, nationality (or lack thereof), spirituality, skin tone, gender preference - but still call for the heads of anyone who would draw a child with a penis. Because, the children.
Oh, the children. What children?
One day people will stop obsessing about these imaginary children and perhaps see that it's not doing them any favours. It won't however be any time soon. In the meantime, we'll have some more paranoia. Thankfully I'm used to it. I already know better than to smile in public.
I don't self-identify as a porn artist. That is, I've drawn adult pictures sometimes, but it's not the bulk of my expression, and I'm very, very bad at it. Trust me, I am. But even if I'd look down on others who are heavily into it I wouldn't cheer for them being banned because of that. You don't get to pick and choose and piece together your perfect society based on what you're comfortable with and what not. This is why the majority shouldn't decide on the rights of the minority.
I'm projecting a larger issue onto a tiny one, but I think there's merit hidden in it. I'll explain the political relevance with a similar situation with a different outcome. If companies decided they didn't like, say, tits. What would happen? There'd be outrage purely due to numbers. And I'd be with them, even though.. I don't really like tits. Even if there'd be a titban, there's still the idea that there was a good fight, and the necessity to fight it. Eventually things will buckle under the strain. People would feel that the way to treat a bad law is to see it as a provocation to break it, as a sense of civil responsibility.
You don't cheer for a loss of liberties because you weren't using them, or they were inconvenient for you. These things however are battles to be won in the far future. People will be able to coexist regardless of gender, nationality (or lack thereof), spirituality, skin tone, gender preference - but still call for the heads of anyone who would draw a child with a penis. Because, the children.
Oh, the children. What children?
One day people will stop obsessing about these imaginary children and perhaps see that it's not doing them any favours. It won't however be any time soon. In the meantime, we'll have some more paranoia. Thankfully I'm used to it. I already know better than to smile in public.
