I don't mean to sound like we've grown ourselves some sort of dystopia, but I'll be damned if this isn't some Minority Report shit right here. It just seems wrong to me that intent is somehow a punishable offense, particularly when it's thinly veiled intent that no one with a real education would agree with.
And people wonder why I say that things like "To Catch a Predator" are a joke and a threat to our rights as citizens. Next step? Government controlled locks on our doors and chips in our heads set to alert the authorities at any indication of a thought gone sinister.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Read the story, look at the pictures, and tell me you aren't thinking it too
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I think that essay had some sick shit in it. It was gross and I do not like it. As an educated, free-thinking sorta guy, my response is basically nothing.
An example....
Hitting myself with a hammer hurts. I don't like it. As an educated person, I quit hitting myself with the hammer and call that good. As a part of the controlling religious right or one of the people suckered in by the constant scare tactics, I start an organization to lobby for the criminalization of the possession of hammers. The guy that sold me that hammer needs to go to jail.
The analogy doesn't hold up here though. There isn't a reason to stop writing graphic essays. I have to think it would be better to say that when someone asks you why you're hitting yourself on the head with the hammer, if you respond with "because I'm practicing to hit someone else with it" then appropriate action should be taken rather than ignoring it.
We can't fix all the world's problems but if people cared enough to ask the questions before reacting and taking action before things progress too far, I think we'd cut down on a lot of the violence we end up dealing with today.
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