Puritans.
We “banned” alcohol for 13 years.
America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. We claim to be secular but really it’s an aspiration.
We “banned” alcohol for 13 years.
America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. We claim to be secular but really it’s an aspiration.
What say you
1)Government makes companies liable for hosted third party content
2)Companies set up workflows to detect said content
3)???
4)Blame capitalism
We are talking an adults private photos, not a billboard on the freeway.
there are absolutely no reason to ban it, because that only causes more harm.
somehow many people on Earth have a remarkable resistance to nuance.
Source: human history.
It’s time to move on.
>Source: human history.
The alcohol consumption statistics of certain ME states strongly disprove your thesis.
But it's very hard to find any data (let alone official data) on any of this, because nobody wants to suffer 72 lashes with 0-gague electrical cable at the hands of Iranian police for having admitted to have had a glass of wine or whatever one night.
Alcohol is an aspect of human civilization since per-historic times (as old as farming if not older) and always will be, regardless of what puritan Christians or foaming-at-the-mouth Mullahs might think of it.
Across the board (addiction, alcohol, abuse) any type of "zero-tolerance" "bring the hammer down" policy e.g. a blanket ban on alcohol has always been at best orthogonal and usually antithetical to harm reduction. As someone mentioned in the above comments, nuance is everything in providing support to the vulnerable --- ask any social worker. Religious guilt enjoys no such effectiveness.
(Sorry, two of the citations are in Persian, I couldn't find English sources. Google translate could be a workaround.)
Edit: spelling.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-features-49967036
I’ve lost track of how many people in this thread have blamed Christians. Why? Christian’s do not have a ban on alcohol. Where is this idea coming from, or are we just spreading hate?
Also, in many of the comments in this thread, the word “puritan” is not used.
My comment remains, this comment existed to spread hate, nothing else.
Also what other vices? The word vice generally means bad things so you’re upset that this “group” is giving life guidance? Are you equally as intolerant of a doctor telling people not to drink?
How do you know those nudes are taken consensually? And what's your liability for developing ("reproducing") them?
> You can't even take a photo of your own kid.
You missed the part where we're discussing a sub-topic off that story, someone's experience working in a photo store, and the policies in place there.
> Why would you assume a crime by default?
I assume you mean "you" as in a photo store that finds such negatives in a job order, and not me directly?
Because as I said, your liability or even reputation if this isn't from something legal, is not worth the profit made.
Apparently you’ve never been to Baltimore. There is no dark religious past haunting that city, just corrupt politicians.
Baltimore has 10,000,000 people. The United States is larger by a factor of thirty three.
Baltimore has a population of 600k not 10m, you're off by a factor of 13
That's as batshit crazy as recent assertions that nothing the courts rule can be sexist; after all, women would just run for seats on the supreme court if they cared; they're a majority of the population, after all.
Since the nonsense in the last paragraph actually came from a recent supreme court majority opinion, I'm wondering if you can point to a supreme court ruling backing up your statement.
According to the First Amendment, you have a conceptually unlimited right to write petitions (complaints). Practically, it is limited by the absence of violence during assembly.
There's surprisingly few rulings on the right to petition.
I expect most only complain about corruption because the basics aren’t being delivered, not out of a sense of civic responsibility.
This has so many holes in it you’re making Swiss cheese look rational.
> I expect most only complain about corruption because the basics aren’t being delivered, not out of a sense of civic responsibility.
I expect you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.