Posts by Tess Rooney
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Craig: I don't like late nights, loud noise or big crowds either, does this mean I have an APB?
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I only realised how wonderful and safe our university social group was as I have gotten older and seen a wider slice of life. Women could dress as they chose and if there was unwanted attention it was stomped on hard and fast. The fault of unwanted attention is soley on the person giving it.
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ROTFL!! The phil depatment ought to have warnings posted - "This Way Poverty Lies". Still, it's really well educated poverty.
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The problem with provocation that I have is that it takes guilt away from the perpetrator and places it on the victim. Rather than saying violence as a response isn't acceptable, it tells us that sometimes violence is understandable and that full responsibility doesn't apply.
Never should anyone say to victim of violence "Well you provoked it."
Except... for Buzz Aldrin:
Well I'm not seriously saying that Buzz gets a free pass, but I can see why he did what he did.
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What if there was an independent review committee to go through the secret list of blocked sites? Perhaps not all the sites, but a random 20% of them, making sure that mission creep had not occurred.
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Don't worry, I will ... though I may wait until I'm home before searching :-)
Well if you are determined it's the asvamedha sacrifice.
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Jpgs plz :-)
The pictures of it that I have seen were in a book in a university library. So you'll have to find your own :)
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No-one's asking you to be. But if other people are enthusiastic about reading Justine or perusing Tiny Nibbles or watching Reservoir Dogs, they shouldn't have to rely on other people being enthusiastic about it before they're allowed to.
All these things are legal.
Actually I have been thinking further. For example there are Hindu paintings showing a queen mating with a white stallion for a ritual and there are ancient Greek images on pottery that are pornographic. I wouldn't want these things censored. Likewise I read quite a lot of literature that was regarded as immoral when it first appeared, eg. Madame Bovary.
So no. I change my mind. Whilst I want some things blocked I do think we should be very careful to avoid creep.
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I guess I'm in two minds here. I think that illegal objectionable material should be blocked, but I can see how that could impinge on people's freedom if it went beyond what is currently illegal.
I'm just not that enthusiastic about pornography or violence, even if it is consensual.
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Would it matter if they blocked all the objectionable material that they could? I'm not really seeing a downside here.