On Aug 29, 1:08 am, Palindrome wrote:
> Webmanager_CritEst wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 11:44 pm, Charles Bryant
> > wrote:
> >> In article ,
>
> >> Palindrome wrote:
> >>> Different countries have different laws
> >>> and different rules apply. Live with the UK ones or go to a country
> >>> which has rules you approve of.
> >> A little thought should show that that principle is morally
> >> indefensible. There is a third option of trying to change the rules.
> >> Where the rules are wrong, that is morally the best course.
>
> > ... and few bad laws have been changed, without breaking them.
>
> Laws aren't changed by people breaking them in secret and keeping that
> law-breaking very much to themselves.
>
> If all (or even some) of those that have been prosecuted for creating
> child abuse images had done so, then phoned the police to admit it and
> to state that they had done so as a protest - then my attitude would be
> a little different.
>
> But they didn't. They broke the law for purely selfish reasons, not to
> right some wrong for the benefit of the community or for the benefit of
> others.
>
> When it comes to the moral high ground, they are down in the sewer.
>
> --
> Sue
They all start in private and then grow. That is why they are
ultimately successful (because The Man cannot try to quash them until
it is all too late).
Everything we do is selfish. All of us. The aim is, to try to make it
less onerous for everyone else, so we can keep doing it.
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