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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!nfm
- From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:54:27 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
- Lines: 41
- Message-ID: <1hp07jINNke0@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- References: <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au> <1hk002INNa1j@zikzak.apana.org.au> <11521@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1992Dec28.041650.17112@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <11523@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
-
- >In <1992Dec28.041650.17112@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> root@cltr.uq.oz.au (Hulk Hogan) writes:
-
- >>Just because knives are sharp doesn't mean no one should have them.
- >>Someone said to me recently,"porn makes good poeple better, and bad
- >>people worse". I think she was right.
-
- >Ok, then why do we ban things like Heroin and Crack ? I am sure
- >you and me can handle those things better so why ban them ?
-
- Although this is moving massively off-topic, de-criminalising such drugs
- is a long-term possibility for Australia on public health and
- law-enforcement grounds. Certain other countries (the Netherlands
- springs to mind) have done exactly that for Heroin and have reported
- encouraging results ... they report that they have approximately 10,000
- heroin addicts, and that after making it a prescription drug, that
- number has not increased. In fact, heroin-related crime appears to have
- decreased, and greater longevity of addicts has resulted. This is a
- hopeful sign in the battle to recover these people into more mainstream
- society.
-
- The thing is, imposing short-sighted "solutions" often exacerbates
- problems, rather than solving them. Looking at problems with an open
- mind may allow us all to develop better strategies to improve our
- troubled society. Treating everyone as children wont help us ... things
- like blanket bans or censorship just hide the problems.
-
- If you are concerned with the issues related to the horrendous rates of
- physical and sexual abuse in this society (and contrary to popular
- wisdom, it's not just men who are offenders, although they are far in
- the majority) look for the root causes and help stamp them out, and not
- impose your thinly veiled morality upon us all.
-
- Peter
-
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