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Re: Re: I have news for you. . . (Sun Feb 18 07:16:10 2001 )
Drac of the Sharp Smiles

drac@tp.net

I still don't understand your complete insistance 
on calling this an issue of morals!! A person who 
doesn't agree with something that I do agree with 
isn't immoral. I might think they're misguided, 
but they have their right to think what they want.

Morals have nothing to do with this issue except 
that some people feel the undying urge to attach 
a sense of morality to anything that has to do 
with sex. People who say things like this have no 
*real* reason to think something is wrong - they 
just don't like the action - and so they declare 
the action "immoral". Oh, gasp! If you can get 
other people to jump blindly on your bandwagon 
withtout thinking about it, out goes your need to 
have a real reason to dislike something. I won't 
jump blindly on your bandwagon, so suddenly I 
must be immoral too.

Try this. Let's hypothesize you have a person who 
watches yaoi anime. Let's even go far enough to 
say this person likes to participate in S&M 
activities. They participate in these activities 
with other legal adults who also enjoy these 
activities. **Without** saying anything about 
your imagined morality of it, tell me *EXACTLY* 
how is this person hurting you?  They're not.

See, morals - real morals - are based on things 
that actually hurt other people. Murder is 
immoral. (It is the ultimate "hurt" to prevent 
someone from living.) Theft is immoral. (It hurts 
people to remove either a piece of their income 
or items that they will then have to use extra 
income to have to replace.) Etc, etc, etc. . .
Getting "grossed out" by something does not 
*actually* hurt you (or anyone else) in any way.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac



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