You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
– G. K. Chesterton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
– G. K. Chesterton
Pornography, if it’s defended, is defended in the name of freedom of expression. The creators of pornography, it is argued, are making an artistic statement. Okay, few defenders of pornography are willing to call it art. But they claim that pornographic performers are proud of their bodies, free from sexual hang-ups, and eager to share their worldview with the rest of us.
That makes pornography the direct counterpart of the 19th century minstrel show. Both pornography and minstrelsy depict an idealized world that doesn’t really exist. And both involve the exploitation of the people they are supposed to be depicting.
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
– G. K. Chesterton