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Originally Posted by lawleypop
I think if we're going to start restricting things, we should start with child pornography. Just to name one.
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They do, that's why you go to jail if you're caught even having looked at it once in your life without reporting it. :p The problem is this isn't quite a relevant analogy: with child ****, people
hide it...it isn't a deliberate publication of false or harmful information, like the sites being mentioned. (If anyone deliberately published child **** information, 'advice' or videos, they're trackable, and toast).
Not to mention, you shouldn't have to
start anywhere...if something, whatever it may be, is deliberately harmful to others it should be lumped together, regardless of the severity. It's right or wrong here, there aren't varying degrees of wrong...
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The idea of banning sites like this is ridiculous. The "problem" is still going to exist. Supression never helped anyone, last I checked.
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What you mean to say is suppression never helped
everyone. The thing is, little websites like this for instance, although they didn't
cause anorexia to come into existence, they do reinforce the concept. It's like picking at your scabs...no, the act of picking your scab didn't
cause the cut/abrasion, but it does prolong the healing process.
Not to mention, exposure is the whole problem. If someone goes through their life and never sees anything remotely close to a cigarette, it's statistically very unlikely that they'll just up and go "Hey, I'm gonna invent these things and smoke them." If someone is surrounded by thoughts of poor body image they'll turn to anorexia...they don't need
disinformation to reinforce those thoughts.
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To put it another way:
YOU may be smart enough to know this causes anorexia, but what about the people who aren't? The people who are duped into this whole problem? Such people can be compared to infants, because of a genuine lack of knowledge/foresight. (It's not necessarily a bad thing, I for instance, am an infant when it comes to say, Shakespeare).
So given they are like infants...suppose I published a website aimed at children (like this website is aimed at the naive), which told children to drown themselves because Santa Claus will bring them gifts or something like that. A naive child would believe such things.
Should action be taken against me?
What about if later, a child actually
does drown themselves? Does the situation change?