
Originally Posted by
Artemis
When I first read your little story I was stoned out of my tree, so sentient comment wasn't really on the agenda. The one thing that struck me, and has stayed with me while I considered your story was great concept, rather bizarre vehicle for your stance. What I mean by this is is, yes I get it, I clearly understand that your stance is about free speech and you revel in the birdbath that is the FST lounge because everyone can say what they want (as long as it is sane), but your vehicle to carry your protest against the censorship you rail at, is rather a twisted one.
Yes it is confrontational, yes you like getting in peoples faces, and so paedophilia as a vehicle for free speech was bound to get a reaction, but you must remember, putting the levity aside, that it is a subject which causes considerable human suffering to a very vulnerable part of society. I say this because as a father myself, there have been times when the tone has made me cringe slightly.
I know it is in jest, I understand the black humor and sometimes too it made me laugh, but there is still the core, the truth that it is a subject that continues to cause needless suffering, and I cannot completely divorce the part of me that is the father of a young daughter, from the internet persona that is Artemis.
This is in no way meant as any form of approbation, it is more an explanation of my personal feelings towards your choice of weapon to fight the censors who inhabit so called free speech forums and attempt to force their moral code upon others. I see the censorship myself, I have more than a few 'concerned' pm's and the banhammer dropped for inappropriate behavior, but although I have usually suggested they have sex with a variety of threshing implements, I never felt the urge to push the boundaries with any kind of a sexual deviancy.
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