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To: one_less who wrote (94897)	1/26/2005 5:19:35 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have no idea what your point is. Do you think I am arguing we are guilty of the atrocities committed by Pol Pot? If so, you are quite quite wrong. If you read my post, what it actually says is that the US supported Pol Pot. I do not say anything about who is responsible for what he did. The post was in response to someone who said "The US NEVER supported Pol Pot." That was just wrong, totally and completely wrong. I know it's fun to read what isn't in posts, and what we wish was there, but when you try to talk to someone else about these fantasies, they may not understand you are talking about something that isn't really there.

To: one_less who wrote (94897)	1/26/2005 5:43:32 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Ted was an interesting case. I had a girlfriend while I was at U of F who lived next door to him in Tallahassee (she was enrolled at FSU at the time). She took no particular notice of him at the time. I think he was being honest when he said, after being assured of dying in the chair, that pornography was his downfall. In his youth he had become addicted to it. Over time what was arousing became commonplace, and he needed more and more extreme images to satisfy his addiction. In time images would no longer serve .... To me this is tied in to the issue of bumper stickers we discussed earlier, though it is not immediately obvious. As a society, we need a mechanism to protect ourselves from ourselves. It can be as simple as peeling off an offensive bumper sticker, refusing to serve someone in the "ten items or less" line who has thirteen items, refusing to allow an adult bookstore to open up shop near a school, or boycotting "reality" shows that serve only to pollute the minds of our youth. It has nothing to do with religion, but I believe it is the primary factor in the rise in religious fundamentalism: people are just tired of their kids being exposed to filth.