I doubt that they will start deleting journals with "suicide" and "suicide survivors" in their interests list. Certainly, suicide is more inarguably destructive, but it just doesn't raise the ol' WONT SUMWUN THINK OF THE CHILDRUNZ panic in fundie vigilante groups the way, apparently, people writing incest fanfiction does. Still, I agree with your sentiment-- if some of us aren't safe to express ourselves in our own journals, then none of us are.
The second point is something I've been rehashing over and over in my discussions of the issue with other people. If I truly believe in free speech, then I believe in the right of people to say things I don't like, and/or think are icky. Personally, I think that pedophilia and incest are icky. But just because I think those things are icky doesn't mean that other people don't have the right to write about them.
And certainly, there are points where language becomes violence. Racist language (for example) on its own is problematic and disturbing, but it isn't violence until it's used to actively threaten someone. Similarly, I think talk of pedophilia, disturbing as I may find it, does not constitute violence until an adult actively uses language to goad a youth into sex. To simply say "I find children attractive," or "I want to fuck my parent/child/sibling," may strike me as unseemly, but my objection to such an opinion doesn't make it, or the expression of it, illegal.
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Date: 2007-06-01 03:54 am (UTC)The second point is something I've been rehashing over and over in my discussions of the issue with other people. If I truly believe in free speech, then I believe in the right of people to say things I don't like, and/or think are icky. Personally, I think that pedophilia and incest are icky. But just because I think those things are icky doesn't mean that other people don't have the right to write about them.
And certainly, there are points where language becomes violence. Racist language (for example) on its own is problematic and disturbing, but it isn't violence until it's used to actively threaten someone. Similarly, I think talk of pedophilia, disturbing as I may find it, does not constitute violence until an adult actively uses language to goad a youth into sex. To simply say "I find children attractive," or "I want to fuck my parent/child/sibling," may strike me as unseemly, but my objection to such an opinion doesn't make it, or the expression of it, illegal.