Comments on: Technology and the March of Mankind

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:53:10 +0000

amen!
cultivate personal responsibility and individual judgement.
those who want to ‘do away’ with things like porn, want to do so because inwardly they feel too compelled to participate. they want it gone so their desire for it will go – but that wont work either.

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:59:33 +0000

Joe Carter makes a salient point in the article you linked: we often assume that the solution to the ills of technology is more technology (such as filters to keep out internet p0rn), when in reality the best filter is a fully developed (or redeemed) adult morality that finds certain sins unappealing. Personal responsibilty can never be hacked.

By: Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:04:51 +0000

Joshua: I’m not sure that Ayn Rand is such a good thing, and I wouldn’t put her on the same level as the Bible and Plato.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:42:32 +0000

Are you sure about that ?
David and I
or David and Me?

By: Joshua Claybourn

Joshua Claybourn — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:09:36 +0000

gracias

By: nitpicker

nitpicker — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:04:45 +0000

It should be “between David Darlington and me” (object of the preposition), rather than “between David Darlington and I.”

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:40:43 +0000

Playboy and hustler are the other side of the coin of the Bible.
More accurately, of religion/societies efforts to suppress mans basic energy -which is Sex.
The more religion tells man to suppress sexuality, the more Homosexual activity will arise, the more pornography will arise.
It is like the energy of sex becomes warped and twisted when suppressed – you cannot destroy it, keeping it bottled up, or pushed down actually makes it stronger – and it will find a way to come out – as we see with the 900 billion + porn industry.
It is easy to see, no study is needed. When you tell a child he cannot do a certain thing, this very thing becomes more desirable to him. Anyone with a child knows this. Anyone who observes themself can see this as well. His desire to usurp your imposed limitations will possibly even come out in non-related situations – such as breaking a glass, spitting water, smacking another sibbling.
My vote, though, is always for greater information and availability of that information – be it hustler, the bible, or the Rig Veda.
Censorship of information is tyrannical. Even with absolute toilet information. Mans capacity to judge and descern for himself, as an individual must be respected and cultivated – not subterfuged by any organization – islam, christianity, hindu – which wishes to control the input of ideas/thoughts within individuals.
Abundant historical proofs show the absolute desolate experiences which fruit from the seeds of censorship.
Remember the law of momentum. Hate creates hate, love creates love – and so forth. Censorship will create more and more censorship.