Re: snow foolin diddle

Kyle Baker <k_m...@homail.com> wrote:

> I think the pictures are immoral and therefore it would be immoral to 
> view them.  

Kyle - "morality" is an awfully big word to bring into it. Take a deep 
breath and ask yourself whether a few ascii characters thrown together to 
suggest a naked body or sexual act truly transgresses any natural law of 
moral behaviour. 

art by definition cannot be immoral. The attitude that it could be immoral 
even just to _view_ certain art is an extremly dangerous one. Sure, now 
it's just a complaint about sexii's snow foolin' diddle -- but later 
it'll be withdrawing funding from museums because they exhibit something 
someone objects to, or throwing a composer in jail because he or she 
writes modernist, inaccessible music, also called immoral under certain 
regimes.

anyway, I happen to know that the women in sexii's pictures were all over
21, were consenting and well compensated, and under supervision at all
times during the ascii rendering :-)  No but really, no one is being hurt
by such pictures. I appreciate Joan's distaste because she made the pics
for her children, and out of respect for one of the true great ascii
artists, the diddler should remove Joan's art from his site now she's
disapproved. The coloured jpgs there are pretty dumb anyway. sexii should
stick to the smaller pics he's posted here, the one with a whip was quite
good.

> If you are tempted to do this with ascii art stop drawing it.

sorry, this sounds so much like the advice my old edition of "Scouting for
Boys" had about when you lie in bed at night and have impure thoughts.  
Howver much some people are dismayed by the thought of 15-yr old boys
having a bit of a wank of an evening, doctors agree it's a healthy and
harmless pasttime. Your advice to "resist the temptation" of drawing such
ascii - or diddling others' ascii - is similarly quaint. Some people like
to draw bunnies, some people like to add cocks to other people's bunnies.  
Killfile them and move on. Likewise for Tran Q - though I consider that
he provides a valuable reposting service, and if you strip the rude
messages, the art he posts is often good (though never his own of course). 
I did have to laugh at the "see no evil, hear no evil" etc monkeys 
recently.

in short, don't worry if you catch a glimpse of the {i} or other immoral 
ascii sequences--you won't be condemned to the eternal flames.

--monty, who was bored this afternoon

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