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Children seeing porn is the lesser evil in a choice of that or authoritarianism. The police are not allowed to just come onto property and demand everyone there prove they have the right to be. Does that mean that lots, and lots, and lots, of people enter property when they aren't allowed? Yes, does this mean that sometimes people get away with serious crimes? Again, yes. However the downsides of the 4th amendment are lesser than having cops forcing everyone they don't know to prove their identity and that they aren't doing anything wrong.
The 1st amendment means that people will be exposed to things, considered speech for legal purposes, that are not good for them. This is less bad than the government getting ever more control over speech. In order to to have freedom you will have to accept that bad things will arise from it.
So if children are at a strip club the government should not intervene?
Kids have never been allowed in strip clubs. You're using a slippery slope argument.
Uh, not thats not a slippery slope argument... Its an argument about how if there are things happening then we should stop them, even if you think its authortarian. So if we were able stop children looking at naked people, then we should do that too.
Children already are not allowed in strip clubs, and never have been. You are employing a slippery slope argument.
Gotcha, you dont know what a slippery slope argument is, and can understand a basic argument. Have a great night!
And you don't have the courage to consider a viewpoint other than your own. Goodbye.