Re: snow foolin diddle

Purity is a direction, not a line that we cross (Joshua Harris said
something like that.)  As far as the "natural law of 
moral behaviour", since when was man naturally moral?  I may have
misunderstood you.  Whether it is a real picture or not, it is still
suggesting the same thing.  Maybe I was too harsh, if so I am sorry.  I
am not perfect, just forgiven.

I don't think we agree on the above, but at least we agree that Joan's
art should not be changed in a way she does not approve of.  It is
disrespectful to her.  I didn't want to cause an argument, sorry. 
Thanks for listening.

uncle monty wrote:
> 
> 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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