Because making people ashamed of a natural aspect of themselves is pitiable, because it's not really something you can rid yourself of.
Yeah that's what literally all sin is. It's something you can't get rid of, that you acknowledge you can never lose, that gives you conversely an ideal to strive for while at the same time realizing that you can never truly be a perfect human being, and that even as you fail you remain loved by God. It's done wonders in giving me a more fulfilling and happy life than hedonistic debauchery, which is momentary intense pleasures followed up by lifelong mistakes and regrets. I don't think it is fair to your wife or husband who you are committed to to want to or to have sex with someone else. The first step to avoiding cheating is to keep in mind that you shouldn't look at others lustfully, and even if you do, that it is not something you should do. I don't flagellate myself when I do, anymore than when I fail in having love towards every human being alive and that I meet. On a less religous note, ignoring base short term instincts and desires in pursuit of a longterm ideal or goal is what separates us from animals and builds civilization.
All your studies have been based in a biased viewpoint, and this has been pointed out by others. You pulled out the Bible for what amounted to an argument that not enforcing an aspect of Christianity on the country as a whole somehow amounts to not wanting Christians to exist in the country.
And if you argue that the porn is good studies are wholly unbiased I got a bridge to sell you. I have not argued for enforcement at all. My argument is purely against the
SOCIAL STIGMA aspect, and the argument that it should not exist. It necessarily follows then that you want no one to adhere to this core christian value, and therefore want it expunged from society.
The selectivity comes from choosing to follow some parts of the Bible, but not others. Like say the part about not eating pigs, or the part that says you shouldn't wear clothing made of more than one kind
14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
Bible is pretty clear there too. Food is not inherently unclean, but if you believe a food to be unclean then it is. Basically, I can totally eat pigs just fine while adhering to the bible, so long as I am not going up to a vegetarian and eating a ham sandwich to spite them and their beliefs. because I study it's word, not just look for gatcha questions to say checkmate christians. Same would apply to linens and clothing. Note though that the term there is clean and unclean, not sin, which is different. So please skip the next checkmate of "so porn is fine then because I consider it to be clean". That isn't what is being talked about here, otherwise he would have said "if anything one regards something as sin, then it is sin." Not what is clean.
I am. I am only responding to what you have said.
You aren't, because I never said I supported a porn ban.
Because as you yourself have shown, this is coming from your religion.
That and studies around it and personal experience with it and its destructive effects on sexual wellbeing.
@FriedCFour I believe you are starting to see why I don’t bother talking to them. They don’t actually think porn is a problem, but they didn’t come out and say that. They instead started calling me names.
They did. They said it's a good thing and shouldn't be socially stigmatized. You are jumping a point here with your arguments. If you want to convince someone it should be illegal, argue and focus first that it is a bad thing. You need to share that common ground and axiom to argue for a ban in the first place, because people will dismiss you outright if you want to argue for banning something they consider a social good. Argue why porn is negative first with them. Only with people like me who agree with you it's not a good thing you can then argue with on legality.
I find it to be rather silly, and an example of how Christians tend to selectively follow what's in their holy book, but if your religion wants to stigmatize porn among its followers (just like certain other religions and pork), I'm cool with that. I'd be even cooler with it if you'd keep it strictly among members of your religion, but that's as much of a pipe dream as thinking what you and The Name of Love are proposing is possible without an oppressive authoritarian theocratic government.