Not when you threaten to ban anyone who disagrees with you, regardless of whether or not your view is any more ‘right’ than others’.
Although personally I share your view on the matter, if you walk/drive by a photography studio with a display window, you will usually find pictures of kids. And quite often these kids will be naked. The pictures rarely openly show genitals but they are clearly completely naked.
And why do those pictures exist? Because the parents decided to have their children photographed by a professional. Are all parents who have naked pics of their children pedophiles? No… I’m not claiming that’s what you were implying. Just throwing forward a reasonable question.
I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here children play naked. Parents may sit on the porch and have a grand time, and their children will be running around the garden during summer time, perhaps running through the sprinklers, buck naked.
People will walk by and smile at the innocence of youth, and MOST will never think it to be sexual at all. This, too, applies to naked photography of the same children. They are all innocent and happy, and I can understand parents wanting happy pictures of their kids.
That being said, I don’t want pictures of my kids naked. Nor do I want them to run around naked outside. I think the world is a shitty place full of crappy people with questionable morals. I may very well over-protect my children but I can live with that just fine, thank you very much.
Just because you have a “oh fuck me runnin” moment doesn’t mean that you need to step down. As KH stated that is the drama queen thing to do.
We all have different opions/thoughts/feelings. That’s life…no one is always goin to agree with the other and if we did do you realize how fuckin boring the world would be?
Ya don’t need to do anything drastic. You’re a damn fine moderator. So put ya big girl panties on and deal with it. 🙂
Agreed.
Topics like this one will (and should) always cause strong reactions. It’s nothing to joke about, and as we all know online forums can make a comment come across a lot more uncalled for or nasty than it was originally intended. We see an example of that here and I don’t think any harsh consequences need to follow for any member.
The thing with “naked kiddie photos” is that in earlier days, they just stayed where they should remain, in Momma’s private photo album, only pulled out to amuse the immediate family and potential in-laws.
Many people weren’t even aware that these pictures could be seen as material for pedophiles.
Now everyone is paranoid (and still uploading those pictures on the internet for everyone to see and grab?!) and no one knows anymore where to draw the line between a harmless picture of a chubby kid in the bathtub/on some furry blanket/at the beach and something that is definitely seedy.
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I only have one tattoo and I already want to get a major portion of my body inked
In some areas, I’m not bothered, whereas in others the pain is pretty damn unpleasant. Regardless of the pain though, I find myself wanting more ink. I’m constantly planning future pieces, researching artists, etc. Even if I’m sitting in the chair thinkng “fuck that hurts!”, at the same time I’m excited to see the finished piece. I think I have a sickness. :p
I don’t believe that we have a soul. I guess that resolves that issue. 😀
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