cycling ethics

brooksby wrote:

OldRidgeback wrote:

I do wonder if this person was making all these posts as part of a school project.

What: “101 ways to p!$$ off the grown-ups”?

Yep, trolling while pretending not to.

I do wonder if this person

I do wonder if this person was making all these posts as part of a school project.

maybe your green crusade

maybe your green crusade would be better directed at the Chinese government? https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/

And as for your niche view about porn being a social catastrophe, I’m not sure I see evidence to back that up. I am sat in a very public coffee shop and have been for the last hour or two and I haven’t seen anything really catastrophic either in here or outside that makes me think I agree with your viewpoint.

Or do you think that teenage girls wearing too short skirts for school is evidence? Because they were doing that well before the porn industry grew big – it’s just that ‘moral outrage’ on the part of teachers, churches etc had a stronger hold over society back then. However, we’ve all seen where the churches moral outrage should have been directed – in over at the behaviour of those in the positions of control and influence.

Oh and by the way, I’m not advocating porn, I’m just not as outraged as you at the news article about a cycling club which had been refused BC membership. I think you are seeing things to be outraged at to fit your viewpoint.

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

What is ‘soft’ porn exactly?

Not as much fun?

Won’t somebody think of the
Won’t somebody think of the children!?

redrobot wrote:

knowing my attitude the female poster is indulging in a kind of visual assault.

“the female poster”?  Do sheets of paper have a gender?  Or do you mean ktache’s picture? (that would be ktache whose signature pic has a beard  )

Holding an unpopular point of
Holding an unpopular point of view is not necessarily broad minded. Sometimes a point of view is unpopular and fringe because it is held by people who are exceptionally narrow minded, and as such, the majority of well adjusted people do not agree with it.

I think you missed my point as well. You hold an opinion on porn, a moral one, that it creates “social horror”. This almost always goes back to conservative moral standards based on controlling the behaviour of other people to satisfy the holder’s moral outrage. There is very little substance to it – porn can create addiction, as can video games. Neither are social horrors. An example of a social horror is the Tory party war on the disabled via benefit sanctions and reductions.

What I am trying to get across is that neither you nor I have the right to control legitimate and legal freedom of expression based on our moral outrage. You don’t like seeing adult workers illustrated in a provocative way in an article of which they are the subject? It’s too bad. I see things I don’t like. And I don’t try to force everyone else not to see them either.