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Originally Posted by Delgar
The post you quoted is not even slightly accurate. His articles and comments (example: Julian Assange is justifiably assassinated) are often offensive, but his academic work has value.
He started being criticized in the early 90's as a shill for his political ideas as opposed to being an academic, and as time went on he deserved that title more.
I'm fully behind censuring him for his comments and the issue that spawned this thread, but to suggest he's always a nutbar is not accurate.
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Ah. Thanks.
I haven't been able to track down anything...I'll check the U of C library tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by photon
What's the difference between someone viewing a rape video that's "in the wild", someone viewing a movie that depicts rape, or someone drawing a cartoon depicting rape?
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Hate to drag in a comment from so early on, but an offshoot of this has always interested me. Do these sorts of "wild" movies and cartoon movies have any effect on the crime rate? Can they increase it? Or if it at that point comes down to some guy getting his jollies (and have no net change on crime)? Or, that in a result of psychology that I'm not comfortable with, that it actually reduces the crime rate (the line of thought being that "if they can get their satisfaction at home, on video, they won't try to enact it in reality")? Of course, I should point out at this point that it's purely about "wild" video and cartoons, where the concept of a victim is minimized.
And if these cartoon and "wild" movies have no effect, what should the action be on them? The action on a decrease or increase in actual crime based on the videos seems more clear cut...but in the scenario where the crime level does not change (which I think is pretty possible), what should we do?
I really wish society had the money to fund endless studies...this sort of topic is probably worth knowing, but is so far down the priority list (and to some degree, deservedly so given the difficulty in measuring such values and getting reasonable results), that it'll likely not be investigated.