Comments on: Beyer disappointed by new porn-ban proposals http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2006/08/31/beyer-disappointed-by-new-porn-ban-proposals/ Watching. Pointing. Laughing. Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ian Charles http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/2006/08/31/beyer-disappointed-by-new-porn-ban-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-20102 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:14:35 +0000 http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=555#comment-20102 “It is a great disappointment that hard-core pornographic material, classified R18 by the British Board of Film Classification, has not been considered.”
Well maybe because those are considered legal…..

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What a joke the man is.

I don’t even know why he still retains any credibility…..

The latest view is that porn reduces sex crimes…

See:
http://tinyurl.com/h5klc

By an eminent Americam law professor, who has been involved in this debate for many years…

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How the hell does he know? Which people? His people, no doubt.

As for Monitor’s logical point about correlation and cause, it could, of course, be causal, but the other way. Have the Massahs of this world not thought that someone who is pathologically attracted to committing violence might satisfy some of that urge by getting his rocks off by watching some of it on TV or computer screen? Have there been any papers in Science or other worthy academic journals to say there’s conclusive, statistically compelling proof that A leads to B rather than vice versa? Or that neither leads to the other, but it is simply coincidence in those cases that throw up both A and B in the same person? I love picking holes in his argument, but someone well versed in argument (using all the philosopher’s tools of argument) would make mincemeat of him. It would be interesting to see him on TV up against, say, Anthony Grayling.

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