PunkInDrublic said:
Yeah seen both of those said here before and while hilarious, not a very good argument. Especially the porn site one. I doubt any argument exists that could make library shows acceptable to me so I'll just give up on the topic. If these silly things they tell themselves can somehow make them not feel bad about their poor behavior, cool. I just hate when people start to actually believe the bullshit they tell themselves.
I KNOW this is a dead horse and th at PiD goes round in circles on this. Food for thought:
broadcasting is different from watching porn.
Lets take a non-nude non-sexual show in a library:
I take pictures of myself in public places all the time. I post them to my twitter feed and my website - both of which are 'porn' sites. Is this disrespectful?
I don't see how taking a picture at a library, and posting it on a porn site is any different than broadcasting live from a library. Video is just a series of pictures..
Essentially - the line is fuzzy and people draw it differently.
If these silly things they tell themselves can somehow make them not feel bad about their poor behavior, cool. I just hate when people start to actually believe the bullshit they tell themselves.
Just because someone sees something differently than you do, does not mean they are 'telling themselves' something to make them feel better about something they must feel deep down in their conscience is bad. Conscience is a personal thing.
I've also been told that broadcasting my body on a porn site from the privacy of my own home is disrespectful to women and that "i just tell myself its not to make myself feel better". The person that told me that genuinely feels that to be true for their own conscience. But telling ME that i must feel that way also somehow.. is just silly. Just because you can't wrap your head around how someone else feels, does not mean they must actually feel differently somehow. It just means you are unable to understand their point of view.
We all have deeply held beliefs about respect.
I personally CANNOT wrap my head around sexualizing religion/making a mockery of it. (ex: sexy nun costumes). I feel it to be deeply disrespectful and offensive.
HOWEVER, I am not going to tell anyone that they must be 'telling themselves that its not to make themselves feel better about their poor behavior" because I'm pretty sure they just don't see it the same way I do.
It actually doesn't change anything about my beliefs, and it doesn't threaten them to acknowledge that someone else might have a deeply-held belief that they feel is true.