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Old 05-12-2003, 03:03 PM   #202
Yorick
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Originally posted by Thorfinn:
Yorick, let's switch gears a sec. What if the Religious Right managed to get enough control over the government in the '80s to ban any records that did not meet their narrow definition of "music", on the grounds that metal and acid and whatever else were sound pollution? What if you were only able to listen to rock-n-roll in the privacy of your own home, or if you had to take your walkman outside to get your riff fix?

Don't you see this is exactly the same thing you applaud having done to smokers?
If it was found a particular type of music I loved was found to be harmful to people, and the democratic process meant such music could not be played in public, I would play it in the privacy of my own home.
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