Hanging of 'Truck Nuts' Grows into a Free Speech Debate

[granfire]

Amazing to me how many people claim to be in favor of freedom until it conflicts with their own standards of morality.

Considering that in my illustrous home town I can be booked for solicitation walking down main street in thigh high boots....

I don't quiet follow your on this train of thought.

I am under the impression that the consensus is that while the nuts are dumb, it's over the top to write a ticket for them.....how does that conflict with morality?

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I am under the impression that the consensus is that while the nuts are dumb, it's over the top to write a ticket for them.....how does that conflict with morality?

It conflicts with morality because morality depends on community standards - the community where the standard exists, not some online discussion forum. Consensus view where? Here on MT? So what? Who cares what *we* think? Shall we go inform the city council of Bonneau, SC, that they may not prohibit the display of fake animal testicles from vehicles because *we* are in agreement that it's "over the top?" Go head on, I'll wait here. Tell me what they say.

I happen to agree with the 'consensus' here, if you care. I think they're dumb, and also not something that ought to be outlawed as obscene.

However...

I don't live in that community. If the citizens who DO live there think that these items are obscene, I support their right to make that the law.

I fail to understand how people nominally in favor of freedom could feel otherwise. Yes, I think they're stupid but should be legal. But it's not up to me in that community. Let the local standards determine what is and is not 'obscene'.

Freedom as defined on MT: Everyone should have the freedom to do exactly what I think is OK.

 

[granfire]

It conflicts with morality because morality depends on community standards - the community where the standard exists, not some online discussion forum. Consensus view where? Here on MT? So what? Who cares what *we* think? Shall we go inform the city council of Bonneau, SC, that they may not prohibit the display of fake animal testicles from vehicles because *we* are in agreement that it's "over the top?" Go head on, I'll wait here. Tell me what they say.

I happen to agree with the 'consensus' here, if you care. I think they're dumb, and also not something that ought to be outlawed as obscene.

However...

I don't live in that community. If the citizens who DO live there think that these items are obscene, I support their right to make that the law.

I fail to understand how people nominally in favor of freedom could feel otherwise. Yes, I think they're stupid but should be legal. But it's not up to me in that community. Let the local standards determine what is and is not 'obscene'.

you are talking circles.
Or maybe it's because I have been in a spinning loop all day....not sure...

Freedom as defined on MT: Everyone should have the freedom to do exactly what I think is OK.

I think TF is reserving that right...

 

[elder999]

Personally, I appreciate it when people do things like this. It's an easy way to mark people I would prefer to avoid... kind of like wearing a name tag that says, "Douche."

:lfao:

 

[MA-Caver]

I take it you don't have topless girls in your newspapers then or on television? It's part of life here and in Europe to have naked people in public. We even have thousands of them at one go. I suppose that's why American artist Spence Tunick leaves his home country to take his photos of mass naked people, we don't mind stripping off in public. Go to the beaches in the Med and you'll see hundreds of topeless women of all ages. I often wondered though why it was the Americans who always made a big deal out of it and always seemed more shocked.

In a word... religion.

 

[Tez3]

In a word... religion.

Half of Europe is Roman Catholic and the other half Lutheran so I don't see why you should be more prudish than Europeans!

 

[MaxiMe]

So much for her keeping hubby's home in a glass jar.

 

[HammockRider]

Maybe they could compromise and just put a little metal fig leaf over it? Or maybe she can declare it "art" and get the ACLU involved. Either way, it's a hairy situation.

 

[granfire]

Maybe they could compromise and just put a little metal fig leaf over it? Or maybe she can declare it "art" and get the ACLU involved. Either way, it's a hairy situation.

Didn't see a hair on them things...

 

[granfire]

Half of Europe is Roman Catholic and the other half Lutheran so I don't see why you should be more prudish than Europeans!

LOL, all of them prudish folk took the Mayflower!

 

[MaxiMe]

Trick Trucks a wholey owned subsidiary of Lorena Bobbitt Enterprises LLC?