Roger Scruton - Harming Oneself and Harming Other (2 of 5)

Harming Oneself and Harming Other: What Should the Law Forbid?

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[scottvanska]

Could you upload the missing parts? Scruton is one of my favorite thinkers.

[wernerbh]

There are no missing parts. I've uploaded the entire lecture divided into 5 parts.

[kubiczech25]

Very smart guy.

[MostlyReading]

Pornography is not a moral agent. Its misuse is a result of the opportunity of individuals to do so. Which should be telling you something about where the immorality of any situation lay.

Its regulation would be no different than regulating peoples diets, because fat people cost tax payers money in the public health sector and time spent not enjoying family activities.

[scottvska]

@Xenostrobe Totally agree. Pornography is becoming mainstream in the sense that it is no longer considered a shameful activity to participate in. The gates the hell have been opened.

[croscream]

@AchillesShield

I agree, i do not live the life he describes but i agree with everything he says.

[jak1428]

@Xenostrobe

amen.

[donagh1954]

This guy is good.

[Xenostrobe]

Pornography is a disaster... it degrades all concerned, that is, society as a whole. Promiscuity is the great an universal cause of the corruption of the moral sentiments.

[AchillesShield]

I can't understand the objections people make to Scruton. What he's saying is reasonable; it's not even new. He's going back to Burke and Mill, who knew that rights must be balanced by duties. Too much of the latter, and you get dictatorship; too much of the former, and you get the mob rule of Revolutionary France where sychophants can gain power by claiming to speak for 'the people.' They're two sides of the same coin of despotism. Democracy can survive only by steering clear of these extremes.