Re: EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 5/19/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > Right. So, what's bad about the various countries of Europe, trying to
> > come to a concensus of what constitutes that crime?
>
> Nothing - just stating the finer point in the difference between child
> porn laws and censorship.
>
>
> > In practice, you don't allow people to work as prostitutes, you don't
> > allow adults aged 19 to drink alcohol - despite your constitution. But
> > we've already been over this, and it probably isn't productive to go
> > through it again.
>
> That's different - those are BAD laws which run counter to our
> Constitution and the inalienable rights of humans everywhere. We've
> salted our freedoms with "decency" levels.

The whole point of a written constitution, is to prevent a government from
writing laws that contravene it. So, if (as you say) you have laws that 
contravene your constitution, you must have a weak constitution.

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