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I_Abibde posted...

but this is a case where it's a lot easier to target the symptoms (e.g. individual companies and their policies) than it is to target the overall malaise that is American culture and its deep-seated, hypocritical Puritanism.

Yeah, but then you're effectively punishing someone for it who have themselves already been punished by the same thing you're complaining about. Shitting on Sony specifically for it or demanding that they cater to YOUR ideological position rather than someone ELSE's ideological position just traps them in a no-win scenario and does absolutely nothing to solve the overarching problem.

The interesting thing to see will be whether or not that sort of sexually repressed mentality continues to be a cultural force in the future, as generations of people who grew up with the Internet and tidal waves of free porn look at the world in entirely different ways. But cultural mores tend to be very deep-seated, and can persist for a long time even in the wake of sociological changes. So we'll see.

Or someone will see, anyway - some of us will likely be dead before any significant change occurs.


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