2013-02-14, 08:25 PM
Declaimed Wrote:Personal responsibility and common sense play a large role in this situation. Also to note, if they're removing pornographic material, who says that they won't go any further? They have no right. They need to back down. Many negative elements in the media can leave lasting impressions on people. That doesn't mean that they (The objectionable contents) should be taken away.
Actually they do have the right. It is their country and as the elected government of Iceland, it would seem they have every right to determine what they want to restrict or ban as a country.
The argument that this is just another "negative element in the media" doesn't really apply here. I do not consider pornography to be a form of media. I instead classify it as a form of entertainment (through sexual arousal). Showing violent porn is very different from say, reporting on a shooting or other violent crime.
Declaimed Wrote:If a person cannot control him/herself, then they deserve the consequences.
Ok, I can understand that for some things, but what about when the consequences do not only affect them? If someone has a fetish for violent porn and then goes out and rapes another person, then the consequences are not contained. One person's lack of control very much affected the well-being of another.