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I saw a guy doing moral outrage that men sometimes goon it crazy style in public.
It's pixels. It's thousands of pixels arranged on a screen that make your imagination see a real person.
When people act like it's indecent I'm always like, "oh no the witch pixels have formed the horny configuration"
Just taking the piss btw, read what you want in public it's a damn book. Stores still sell brown paper bags to use as covers, right?
Porn is just pixels so you should have no problem with me watching on the subway with my laptop chuddy
Masturbating in public is just vibrating atoms moving together, like everything else. If you dont like watching me crank my hog to Sonic hentai, then maybe you dont respect physics.
I feel like I know how Diogenese would rebut that logic.
Oh no, the cynical philosopher has formed the horny configuration?
Nah, he'd probably just fuck a dog in the public square and laugh and say that all human morality is an absurd construct used to enslave the minds of the uncritical masses
Yeah, basically this.
I think he'd also use the extreme liberty of the argument "words can't hurt you, you puritain prudes" to find out how committed to that argument people really were. And I don't think it would take long.
When my grandma died, she had like a hundred of those books stashed around the house. Also, vodka in Maalox bottles. It was the first time I found out that grandmas can be freaks too lol
this can be applied to anything
theyre guns theyre a hump of firey metal you need to regulate metal? hahahahahahahaaaaha
Are you really going to call me a terrorist just because I want to shoot some neutrons at a cluster of enriched uranium in a populated area? Seriously?
She reads romance novels, someone else look at porn. My thought has always been “you prefer words, they prefer pictures, but fundamentally it’s no different”
Maybe not in the preference but I think there is a fundamental difference in terms of the actual product. Porn as an industry tends to be a lot more exploitative for the people featured in its media, whereas I don't think the same is true with the romance novel industry when writing about fictional characters. (Don't get me wrong the latter can be problematic too but I think they're on completely different levels)
People in here comparing looking at porn images in public as if it's comparable to a smutty book. I dunno, man. It would take effort to read someone else's book in order to know what it's even saying. But pulling up a pornographic image doesn't take any work to comprehend. One requires hovering over someone's shoulder, getting in their space, and actively trying to figure out what they're reading. The other requires no more than a glance around.
As far as being appropriate in public, they really can't be compared.
I think part of it is that the idea of viewing content that arouses you in public is a more horrifying idea for men than for women. Women can be aroused without anyone knowing, whereas the same is not generally true for men. So for men it seems more absurd for someone to be intentionally arousing themselves in public
It is, in essence, the same as viewing porn in public if somehow no one else could easily see it. The underlying point is that its still sexual content
Some of those book covers, though.
Maybe it has to do with the other commenters point. If you took the polarizer off your screen and put it in your glasses so only you could see it, I still think it would be weird to watch porn in public. It is like a social norms thing for me about not intentionally getting yourself aroused in public.
This is fucking stupid. The moral outrage at smut is also stupid, but this is a monumentally idiotic way to argue that point. The Turner Diaries are also 'just letters,' as are the bible, the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation techniques' manual, the 'Letter From a Birmingham Jail,' Romeo & Juliet, Anti-Oedipus, and your friend's suicide note.
It's just four colours of dots arranged to make you imagine Juicy Jugs.
Once I tried to determine the least amount of pixels in a grid that would undeniably be considered lewd. 3x3 pixels can sort of contain a penis, but 2x2 pixels? Idk. But undeniably? Probably more. There must be a minimum number of pixels where the image would be clearly "inappropriate".
Probably somewhere in the range from 8x8 to 16x16. Favicons are 16x16 I think, and that's enough for porn sites to show boobs or something.
I think OC confused the number of colors you need on a screen: RGB are just 3 colors.
I was going for CMYK printing for a magazine in a public bus to parallel the OOPs scenario
you can read whatever you want and I'm not going to judge you but personally my frame of mind when horny is not something I want to experience in public
with this in mind, by extension I understand the viewpoint of "people should not have that frame of mind in public"
that being said I'm not gonna police anyone, and I also don't care if you're rock hard or gooping down there cause of something you're reading. I would just prefer not to be
Dogshit argument, I refuse to even evaluate if I agree with the conclusion
any decent witch should know that intent is just as important as the method of casting the spell
Yeah, this meme is a bit too reductionist to my taste.
It's literally pixels that just light up different amounts to form colors to make it look like an image, oh no someone's screen just happens to be displaying a magic combination that registers to your brain as a naked person.
(The argument that a piece of media isn't even the sum of its parts, but just an ordered set of the elements that make it up, is extremely disingenuous. I don't even care if people read smut in public but I don't think this is the best line of reasoning for defending it)
I feel the same way about people putting nsfw warnings on text posts
Like i agree but the argument they present is so bad it almost makes you dissagree 💀
Reminds me of this book series called the Laundry Files. It is a unique mix between Men in Black, Lovecraftian Eldritch and Cosmic Horror, and The Office. In it, magic, monsters, interdimensional beings, eldritch gods, etc. are all real, a constant threat, and kept entirely hidden from the public by secret government organizations made up mostly of conscripted engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc. who unwittingly discovered some deeper aspect of the universe.
See, math and algorithms describe the rules and logic of the universe, and since the universe is actually filled with the occult, sometimes that math actually taps into aspects of the universe they weren't expecting. Some can generate apparent magical effects. Some touch into realms whose inhabitants want released or don't want to be bothered. Some algorithms have the capability of waking the great old ones that will destroy the world.
So those people who get too close to such discoveries, they are quickly taken into custody, made to understand the secret nature and apocalyptic danger of the universe that they have been unknowningly dabbling with, conscripted into service of the highly bureaucratic Laundry Files to help protect the world from it, and bound with magical wards to prevent them from speaking of any of it with anyone outside of the organization.
Applied mathematics and computer science are the magic spells of this universe. The increasing amount of compute in the world is pulling us ever close to the end of the universe. It's a problem. But also, Susan in finance won't approve a new coffe maker in the break room and a Succubus is your new supervisor. That's the vibe this series brings. I love it.
