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Unread 07-18-2003, 08:31 AM   #75
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Originally posted by Alchemy
It really tests my adherence to the First Amendment to allow myself in the company of some of the most vile creatures on earth, but I still believe no information should by its very existence be contraband. We have laws against information theft, against public indecency, against harrassment, against conspiracy, against fraud, and against sexual assult and rape, which by themselves protect a society from people who would procure or use information to harm us.

We do not need laws that procecute horrible people for looking at horrible things. So long as they have not harmed anyone, I think even terribly sick people deserve a right to privacy.

Alchemy
This mirrors my position on many such things... I don't like it, I don't condone it. Neither do I condone drug use, smoking, drinking, or the eating of Big Macs, but I do not think it is the role of government to enforce my value system on others.

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