Monday, December 09, 2019

Pornography? Marriage? Same Thing (by Matt Walsh's Reasoning)

For all the problems facing America, conservative pundit Matt Walsh has decided "pornography" is the one we (read: the government) absolutely need to Do Something about. In a semicoherent Daily Wire piece Walsh listed "5 Reasons Why Porn Should Be Banned," including this one:

 Porn makes you less free

There is nothing freeing about porn. A “free society” is not one that must, or should, feature easily accessed pornography. Porn kills freedom because it enslaves the viewer to his passions. I understand that very silly people, who are not in the habit of thinking, will snicker at the previous sentence. But they only snicker because they are slaves themselves. They are so consumed by pornography, so beholden to it, that they are not capable of intellectually engaging with any criticism of it. They are obsessed with porn, and they will viciously defend it, yet they derive no joy from it and they hate themselves while they watch it. They are slaves. And slaves cannot be free.
People in prison for publishing or looking at sexy pictures cannot be free either, but never mind that (Walsh clearly doesn't); thing is, you could use this argument to rail against many things Walsh presumably approves of, including monogamous marriage, which kills freedom because it enslaves the spouse to ONE AND ONLY ONE person out of billions available. I understand that very silly people, who are not in the habit of thinking, will snicker at the previous sentence. But they only snicker because they are slaves themselves. They are so consumed by marriage, so beholden to it, that they are not capable of intellectually engaging with any criticism of it. They are obsessed with marriage, and they will viciously defend it, yet they derive no joy from it and they hate themselves while they live it. They are slaves. And slaves cannot be free.


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