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It's rather hard to fail at something that you were not trying to do in the first place.

Why so many HNers assume she has a vendetta against porn? I read the whole article and did not detect a bias either way.

I know nothing about this writer, nor about Policy Review, nor about the Hoover Institution, so perhaps I speak from ignorance.

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Then why write it? That is a new, interesting angle no one else has offerred, and it must have been inventd by someone for some reason.

It ws interesing in many ways that are unintentional: e.g. because it shows how to fight this sort of plan: don't allow harm to enter the debate.

That killed cigarettes, so if porn wants to survive, prove it causes no more harm than, say, over-exercising or any other "addiction" to what is otherwise a non-addictive thing.

That is a new, interesting angle no one else has offerred, and it must have been inventd by someone for some reason.

Isn't that reason enough?

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