Pretty much the same thing GreenReaper said. And I did give an example of why it was important in my previous post.
To bring this away from cub porn there was recently an example of freedom of speech, art and offensive in America. The Smithsonian had an exhibition of LGBT art and one of the videos had ants crawling over a crucifix and was meant to show the suffering of a person with AIDS. But some Catholics found that offensive and got the video pulled from display. Now was that art and did it have merit? Particularly considering that the Catholic church's stance had previously been against condom use which is the best preventative measure for AIDS.
Just because something offends one person doesn't mean it should be censored.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Pretty much the same thing GreenReaper said. And I did give an example of why it was important in my previous post.
To bring this away from cub porn there was recently an example of freedom of speech, art and offensive in America. The Smithsonian had an exhibition of LGBT art and one of the videos had ants crawling over a crucifix and was meant to show the suffering of a person with AIDS. But some Catholics found that offensive and got the video pulled from display. Now was that art and did it have merit? Particularly considering that the Catholic church's stance had previously been against condom use which is the best preventative measure for AIDS.
Just because something offends one person doesn't mean it should be censored.
And here's an essay about freedom of speech and people being offended and why free speech is important. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9905/
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~