Should Pornography be completely banned?

[MaineDolFan]

No.

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As one of the medical "experts" on this board I'll say this:  being overweight has caused a laundry list of other items that, yes, alter other people's lives other than just the obese.  Shall we start listing them?

Yes please.

[StL FinFan]

Ever sit next to someone on a plane or in a movie theater or a sporting event that couldn't fit in their seat and took up part of yours? 

[CF DolFan]

Ever sit next to someone on a plane or in a movie theater or a sporting event that couldn't fit in their seat and took up part of yours? 

I know plenty of people not overweight that do the same thing.  If your 6'2" and a fit @ 225lbs you can't fit into a seat on a plane or sporting event. Most places are designed for 5'10" 170lb people in tight quarters which is far from the norm.

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Ever sit next to someone on a plane or in a movie theater or a sporting event that couldn't fit in their seat and took up part of yours? 

Yes, but that's more of a temporary inconvenience than a huge burden on society.

CF is right about this world being designed by, and for, midgets uhhh, little people.  Threading the seatbelt through the back of the carseat comes to mind.  A man's hand simply doesn't fit.

[SCFinFan]

HAHAHA this is the best you can come up with? When did we have universal laws across this country outlawing slavery and yet people kept going to clandestine meetings to purchase their fellow human beings agianst their will to use them as slaves? So the prohabition against slavery in this country has been a stunning failure due to people's overwhelming desire to own another human being?
Someone size him up for his clown shoes.

Well, no, all I meant was that we've legislated morality before: with slavery. Slavery had some great reasoning behind it: a whole economic system was based on it. So, were slave owners just gonna roll over and die because of the morality of a few Yankees? No, they weren't.

Then, after the civil war, we instituted the 13th amendment, the only one that (currently) affects private conduct, and the 14th. For years and years we hedged around the absolute, unflinching equality those amendments required. Now we don't. Brown v. Board happened. Separate is no longer equal.

It all started cuz of a few Yankees and their "damned" morality, trying to change federalism.

[StL FinFan]

CF is right about this world being designed by, and for, midgets uhhh, little people. 

Except for clothing.  I keep having to buy smaller and smaller sizes and I know I am not shrinking.  Relaxed fit?  More like : made bigger so you can say you wear a size smaller than you really do.  Pretty soon I will be shopping in the children's section.

How many times have I gone to a t-shirt night and been handed a large or XL shirt that I could wear as a dress?  Good thing I don't go for the t-shirt.  Maybe the ones they handed out to kids would actually fit me.

Then they cram in smaller and smaller seats so they have more to sell, not taking into account our increasingly larger populous.

/end rant

[Dave Gray]

Slavery is a very different concept, because again, it's a zero sum game.  For one person to OWN a slave, another has to BE a slave.  There is a direct victim of someone who's rights are violated.

The argument that most of us are trying to make are the things that are thought of that only directly affect the person doing it.

[CF DolFan]

Then they cram in smaller and smaller seats so they have more to sell, not taking into account our increasingly larger populous.

This is the real reason for the horrible seating arrangements.  I have to take my cell phone off to sit in the Orlando Arena.  There is a ton more room in the newly built UCF arena than Orlando but of course the Magic need as many empty seats as they can get.  It looks more inviting on TV that way!

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Children that have obese parents are 10 times more likely to be obese themselves.

Isn't that true of most of parent's behaviors?  Alcohol & drug use, children out of wedlock, job vs welfare, educaton, etc, etc, etc.

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As one of the medical "experts" on this board I'll say this:  being overweight has caused a laundry list of other items that, yes, alter other people's lives other than just the obese.  Shall we start listing them?

Is there a #2 on this list?

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... try to be a little less...you.

Inquisitive?  Logical?  Intellectually superior?

What's with the attitude today?  Problems at home/work or something?

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Oh yeah, you're always like this.   

[Guru-In-Vegas]

No attitude what so ever.  You're challenging just to challenge.  "That answer isn't good enough, Maine.  Give me another one."

Oh yeah, you're always like this.  

The pot calls who what now?

[run_to_win]

It's "damn it", not "dammit".