Modern-Day Puritans Want to Ban Things That Make Us Happy

thank you Alexandre!!!
this is why I'm here!
let the forums discuss aristotle more, stossel less. tao more, trans less. nature of happiness more, nature of prostitution less.
help me to grow, not regress!

Thank you, Donkey ...

Then again, we can't really tell the rest of the Temple what to talk about (although sometimes ... oh, never mind)

Please continue to dialogue with my apprentice about the Tao ; don't try to 'know' It or become and 'expert' ... just learn to follow It, whatever It is doing/not doing.

And I may sneeze, from time to time ...

Alexandre Orion wrote: Thank you, Donkey ...

Then again, we can't really tell the rest of the Temple what to talk about (although sometimes ... oh, never mind)

Please continue to dialogue with my apprentice about the Tao ; don't try to 'know' It or become and 'expert' ... just learn to follow It, whatever It is doing/not doing.

And I may sneeze, from time to time ...

i will but i cant help but feel that im at the precipice of huge waterfall.....

You are ...

... go with it. Plunge.

To fall from pretense, illusion and arrogance is a fall TO grace.

Tao Te Ching 8 :

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.

Picked up my first copy of the Tao last week.

So I had a thought after reading Donkey say something about prostitution. I believe it bears some relevance to this thread. I heard about prostitutes that have sex with donkeys maybe it's in Mexico. Is that illegal in the US? Is that a form of puritanism?

I agree with Donkey on the direction of posts, but...

Whyte Horse wrote: So I had a thought after reading Donkey say something about prostitution. I believe it bears some relevance to this thread. I heard about prostitutes that have sex with donkeys maybe it's in Mexico. Is that illegal in the US? Is that a form of puritanism?

I worry why you ask!?

The decision making process in humans is not all conscious all of the time. Some things are more prone to derail conscious control then others. Emotion's generally fall into this category (depending on how one uses the word emotion), but broadly anything which relates to things like instincts has a certain power associated to it which can be experienced as an influence to conscious awareness through feelings but also can take control through some survival instincts.

Sex is one of those raw human emotion's for example, and it's what probably empower's the corrupted logic to override rational thought to allow the deviant behaviour of sexual violence for example.

To your question explicitly, society usually see's those things as a matter of lacking real consent (animal cannot express consent), likely physical abuse (animals are not designed for it), and mental disorder (decision making of human).