Now that the children's support groups have come out and said that:

The filter will have no effect on child porn,
There is no link between existing porn and child abuse

The filter is dead.

Child molestation prevention would be better served by neutering priests.

Bushbasher

When you state: “the difference is, i don't act as if god is seated next to me, nodding approval” you speak with forked tongue. Sure - you don’t believe you are seated next to your God – you believe you are God when you dictate to your opponents that a six week, live field trial in internet filtering will not be permitted by you or your cabal.

What right have you to deprive others an opportunity for a field trial, with an optional tier to block material unsuitable for kids, which will not be mandatory? So you and the other fascists tell us a TRIAL is verboten - sieg heil to you too sir!

Included in your hysterical diatribe, is the extremely inane assertion: “bestiality used to get you executed, but is now legal in some countries. why? because, as rstuart pointed out, no on gets hurt and some gain pleasure.”

Why do I get the impression that you are both pig-ignorant? In Sweden, bestiality (which is not consensual) is a growing problem in and in many cases the animals suffer physical injury, according to the country's first government-commissioned study on this issue.

Horses are the species most often abused, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency said a report, which it handed to the government.

A total of 209 cases of bestiality, of which 161 involved horses, have been documented since the 1970s, the agency said. It based its figures on responses to questionnaires sent to veterinarians, animal welfare inspectors and police agencies across the country.

In the period 2000 to 2004, 119 cases of bestiality were documented, compared to just three known cases in the 1970s, 17 in the 1980s and 70 in the 1990s.

A national petition has been launched, supported by equestrians anxious about the number of cases of people who clamber over farm fences at night and attempt to rape female horses. A similar wave of horse abuse has been noted in Germany.

contd......

Brought forward:

And in Norway, a new dissertation from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo showed that Norwegian veterinarians know of at least 124 cases of animal sex abuse in Norway. The thesis reports that 22 percent of Norwegian veterinarians suspect or are sure that they have treated animals that have been sexually abused by humans.

Additionally, Denmark’s animal bordellos—in which people pay for sex with horses and other beasts—are advertising on the Net and drawing customers from as far away as Norway, Germany, Holland and Sweden.

Therefore, since we are witnessing a rapid descent into an acceptance of bestiality, which is not consensual, why not incest too? Well copulating with one’s mother is probably consensual. Ah but the skies the limit eh? Come come, don’t be prudish. And just fantasise about the possibilities. You could rape a pig and then cook him up with apple sauce.

Recently though, of 335 emerging infectious diseases identified, 60.3 percent are zoonotic in origin. So psssst…..don’t forget the condoms. Oh……glorious…… and I wonder when we can expect to see some tasty tips on cannibalism on the Net?

“Just about every woman friend of mine would consider that to be a positive development!” C J Morgan. It is not a “development” and no doubt "just about every woman friend of (yours)" and others enjoy this (off camera I trust) particularly when dealing with clumsy and ignorant morgans…..errrrr.... morons – those “Casanovas” who are oblivious to which buttons to press, rendering the victim, bruised, battered and bow-legged!

On the other hand, I care not if Bushbasher, Rstuart and Morgan hip-hopped a herring since my “lush and vivid imagination” tells me they would indeed, be anatomically compatible.

david f: “Please cite the writing or acts of Voltaire which shows his anarchism.”

You may be an irresponsible anarchist (87! When are you going to grow up?), but you can’t be that ignorant ... but?

You have unfettered use of the internet (thank someone)... so, please refer to the events and acts during the Enlightenment and leading up to the French Revolution.

These may stretch your imagination:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Unquotable:Voltaire

http://www.functionalisminaction.com/2007/08/niemller-voltaire-and-tyranny-of.html

Just kidding :-)

Dear Q&A,

You are the one who claims to be a Voltaire expert. You tell me the reason you called him an anarchist. I am not going to search through Voltaire's works. I also feel no necessity to insult you. I am ignorant of any anarchist tendencies in Voltaire.

This thread kinda lingers. Where can I get a dickie filter?