Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!upstill From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill) Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Pornography Ordinance Message-ID: <3977@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 12:46:43 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3977 Posted: Mon Dec 31 12:46:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 06:30:14 EST Reply-To: upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve upstill) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 Summary: nt of another's creative work is both practically and morally insupportable. 'practically' because it automatically cripples the artist, because he/she must always be concerned with predicting how the 'judge' will take the work. The Minneapolis ordinance is especially heinous in this respect because it makes it so difficult to predict the judge's reaction. 'morally' simply because this is a terrible thing to do to people: putting their thoughts in a strait-jacket, making them adjust their output, not based on how it will affect others, but how others MAY THINK it affects others. Shudder. Steve Upstill