OT: Words fail me

[AgentZero]

There's been a lot of posts here that refer to 'the line' that either needs to be drawn, or should not be crossed, but I'm going to let you all in on a little secret: There is no line! It's more of a box. Outside of this box there are a few things that are unreservedly bad (ie: will never, ever be good no matter what the circumstances), and there are a few things that are unreservedly good. Everything else, morality, religion, politics, theft, violence and murder, go in the box as they cannot be categorized as completely good or completely bad. Sometimes they're one, sometime's they're the other. If you want to speak in general terms, without talking about specific cases, you can only really say something is "mostly good" or "mostly bad."
ie: Charity is "Mostly Good", while murder is "Mostly Bad."

And will people please, PLEASE, PLEASE stop this endless moaning about "the children!" We do NOT need the government to protect our children from adult material. That's what parents are for. I can remember getting caught with a Playboy when I was 13. My parents sat me down and explained to me the whole concept of objectification (in general and of women in specific). Now, granted, if Playboy was illegal, my parents would never have had to have that chat, but therin lies the problem: It would never have been explained to me and a very important lesson on the road to becoming a responsible adult would have been missed.

If anything, the government should put less time and money into protecting our poor children from sex, violence & objectionable material and more into eliminating the concept of 'dual-income families'. I don't mean this in a sexist way, I don't care who is bringing in the money, but I firmly believe that at least one parent should be able to devote a majority of their time to ensuring their child becomes a mature member of society.