Quote Originally Posted by Lion View Post
I'm not sure about Britian, but in Canada and US, we have live pay per view events of UFC, which is some fighting compitition where two men essentially beat each other to pulp.

Hollywood produces several movies a year that glorify violence, or simply shows it because it's integral to the plot.
Stop picking on movie violence people.

UFC is about strategy and comparing styles. I'm guessing all you see is the violence because you know jack shit about martial arts. Am I right?

And on the Hollywood one.... We all know it hurts when we get punched, or even just prick our fingers. That will never change no matter how many Hollywood movies are made glorifying it. It's not the glorification of violence that is the problem. It's the glorification of war! Which I argue is a completely different issue. I still don't think we should make laws about it either... but let's complain about the right stuff.

Pain hurts and is something we can all identify with. That's why violence features so much in media. It's one of the easiest way to engage the viewer emotionally. If people started paying for movies with smarter plots... we might rid ourselves of these types of films. But movie-goers obviously mostly just want to turn their brains off for a bit. Immerse themselves in emotions catering to a 4 year old. It's really nothing to get worked up about.

To the topic at hand. All these moralistic laws are only about the same thing. Politicians want to appear as morally upright and pick political battles that are easily won. Since sex is a taboo issue to be positive about it's hard to find eloquent defenders... so these laws can pass even though 99% of all voters think it's absurd. All politicians realize that it still would be political suicide to oppose it so they pick some other battle that's easier to win. so these kinds of laws linger until decades after they're obsolete.

Sweden had an anti-porn vote up against this. Nobody spoke up for porn. Everybody who voiced any opinion was against porn, the law still didn't pass. The silent majority had spoken. But we have the exact same laws against violent porn. I've got enough BDSM porn on my computer to land me in jail for years.

This is a major problem of democracy, which I don't think is related to sex. Every election always has these bullshit issues which only is about taking peoples attention away from economic issues which are:

1) hard to understand
2) emotionally boring

But we should speak out about this at every opportunity... if we're able. This isn't only an issue for politicians. They listen to voters. It's the popular opinion winds that rule a democracy. Just speak up!