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Legally demonstrable Harm was inflicted in this case? What, the girls had their own business of selling their body and this cut into their profits?

Until it tries to uphold it.

What would happen? We all watch the media struggle to pronounce Betelgeuse. "Scientists are reporting that Behtehlgoose has supernova'd. we go live now to the director of the astrology to see how this will effect our love lives."

So, about all those illegal types of pornography. If we've already established that someone being hurt does not disqualify it, this ruling would open the doors quite wide for all sorts of fetishes to be made legal. Oh, right, it's only wrong when eastern societies censor things.

I guess free speech is only what a certain group of people say is okay.

What a load of shit. Holy crap, who has been lying to these kids their whole lives? That clunky thing, on a ship?

I guess because you are ignorant of the facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Rich people can afford the fines. Poor people cannot. So a rich person can speed and drink with impunity and get away with it as they always do. If you're too stupid to grasp that then maybe you shouldn't be on the internet.

So the only possible alternative is to penalize people for being poor and making bad choices resulting from that? It's right and good to have a punishment be a slap on the wrist to one person and destitution for another based on nothing but their circumstances in life?

Or have the punishment be dictated by your total net worth or income. Poor person speeds? they lose 10% of their total, rich person speeds? same figure, much greater amount. It's just foolish to have a single monetary fine in a society with such great gaps between rich and poor.

Like all traffic penalties, this only hurts low income people. $150 a month will push someone right back into the bottle, it won't even register to a rich kid. But we're a democracy, so we only have ourselves to blame.

Won't this just saturate the market? The easier it is to gain these skills, the less in demand they are.

What exactly would possess you to believe that all technology follows a similar path? Where is the resurgence of passenger zeppelins?

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." That is how the quote goes. Tesla is for giving rich people a fancy toy. Nothing more.

You know this how? Science fiction?