I just want to say that I am in San Antonio right now first off, but I wanted to post this very interesting post out in the open.
Emily said...
Well, there's a flaw. You can't use it to defend actions which cause harm or have victims. Clearly there's a problem there. It doesn't make logical sense to use the argument that way, and of course nobody does.
The rest of the things you might use such an argument to defend are things which, truly, if it doesn't cause obvious harm to yourself or others, then I see that the argument DOES work. I might say 'well it is patently silly to eat popcorn with barbecue sauce, anybody can see that even without trying it,' but indeed you SHOULD try it before you know for sure that it is a bad or good idea. (actually, that turns out to be rather tasty.)
There is a slippery slope, when we start drawing arbitrary lines.
And my reply...
Yeah but who is to say that things like threesomes don't cause harm to the mind and the psyche? I mean obviously I've never had one and I am pretty sure you haven't either, but who's to say if we went out and did that tomorrow that we wouldn't be harmed in the head.
Which can sometimes be the worst kind of harm because you wouldn't know it even happened.
Sorry I didn't have time for a real blog tonight.
