Right, so this post turned out to be pretty shite. I just sort of got distracted and lost interest in what I was writing. Sorry about that. However, for a more eloquent post on the issue, check this link.
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In other news, I'm still trying to revise, had my first exam yesterday. It was on International Ethics. I wrote on immigration and "porous borders", humanitarian intervention and global citizenship. I might write on some of them here at a later date, but at the moment I'm trying to focus on the foreign and security policy of the US. Hm, I wish I only had the interesting books still to read, but no, it's the most important and boring book I'm trying to tackle at the moment. Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fine.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Friday 9 May 2008
Mid-post
I'm posting now just to bring certain things to your attention. I was going to do a proper post relating to one of the things on the following list but I'm in a weird revision induced blah-mood and can't concentrate.
1) I still hate people in the library. Today especially because after a night out in Nottingham yesterday (which didn't include more alcohol than a bottle of Kopparberg) I just couldn't get out of bed before 9 this morning and therefore people had already spread their stuff all around the place when I got there.
2) My post on the text-scandal got picked up by The Golden Strawberry. (I say picked up, but I shamelessly exploited a friend for that.) And from there it got picked up here, which makes me rather proud of myself, simply because it means that people have actually read something I wanted to write. (Although looking back to that post it could've been a lot more eloquent.)
3) A guy on campus completely made my day and reminded me why I love the British so much. I was going to enter the Guild of Students (that is the students union building) and this guy was just coming out of the door and couldn't possibly see me approaching and thus didn't hold the door open for me. And when he noticed me he said 'sorry'! I love 'sorry' and 'thank you' so much I don't understand how can anybody be fed up with 'sorry' or 'thank you'. (To make that last sentence make any sense I'm going to paste here a bit of the blurb for the Birmingham University Nordic Society's facebook group: A group for all Nordic and Nordic-minded people at the University of Birmingham who sometimes wants a break from tea, "sorry" and David Beckham's right foot. Who would ever want a break from 'sorry'?! I'm beginning to think that I'm neither Nordic nor Nordic-minded.)
This is all.
1) I still hate people in the library. Today especially because after a night out in Nottingham yesterday (which didn't include more alcohol than a bottle of Kopparberg) I just couldn't get out of bed before 9 this morning and therefore people had already spread their stuff all around the place when I got there.
2) My post on the text-scandal got picked up by The Golden Strawberry. (I say picked up, but I shamelessly exploited a friend for that.) And from there it got picked up here, which makes me rather proud of myself, simply because it means that people have actually read something I wanted to write. (Although looking back to that post it could've been a lot more eloquent.)
3) A guy on campus completely made my day and reminded me why I love the British so much. I was going to enter the Guild of Students (that is the students union building) and this guy was just coming out of the door and couldn't possibly see me approaching and thus didn't hold the door open for me. And when he noticed me he said 'sorry'! I love 'sorry' and 'thank you' so much I don't understand how can anybody be fed up with 'sorry' or 'thank you'. (To make that last sentence make any sense I'm going to paste here a bit of the blurb for the Birmingham University Nordic Society's facebook group: A group for all Nordic and Nordic-minded people at the University of Birmingham who sometimes wants a break from tea, "sorry" and David Beckham's right foot. Who would ever want a break from 'sorry'?! I'm beginning to think that I'm neither Nordic nor Nordic-minded.)
This is all.
Tuesday 6 May 2008
NO PORN HERE!
There will be a new Criminal Justice Bill (do read the comments on that article, some really good and some really funny comments up there) passed on 8th May banning "extreme" pornography. At first I thought, alright so what is it going to ban, child porn, bestiality... er... can't think of anything else AND weren't they banned before? Hm.
As it turns out the bill defines extreme porn as
* An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person's life
That seems alright. HOLD ON! Appears to? So if the or more people are engaged in some form of BDSM which might seem to be threatening one's life and they filmed it/ took pictures of it no one apart from these people should be allowed to watch it? Huh? It makes no sense to me. And who defines what appears to threaten a person's life anyway?
Right secondly extreme pornography can be
* An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
This one I think is not quite as straight forwardly wrong as the one before. Actually, yes it is. There's that appears again. Seriously, what do you mean by appears? And what is serious injury? And so, if it's all staged and no one is actually hurt and everyone has given their consent to everything there's still a problem? Huh?
Thirdly and fourthly
* An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
* A person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal
These I can kind of agree with, I think bestiality is wrong, if it means I'm not open-minded enough, so be it. But really, can you ask for the consent of an animal? Necrophilia is another thing, personally I think it is wrong and I can't imagine why anyone would want to have sex with a corpse or even watch someone else have sex with a corpse, although I suppose you could stage that. But then, I think maybe you are just a bit wrong if you enjoy watching people fucking people masked as corpses. I can tolerate a lot of "kinks" but perhaps that goes a bit far.
Oh, and here are 'Reasons why you should oppose this'.
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Hm. I can't be asked (OMG, I just publicly wrote down 'can't be asked' Oh dear.) to elaborate more. I probably should but pff. The weather is so nice, it's hard to rant when the sun is so shiny. Although I think I might be coming up with a cold though, which is like really, really ridiculously annoying when the sun is shining. Pff.
As it turns out the bill defines extreme porn as
* An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person's life
That seems alright. HOLD ON! Appears to? So if the or more people are engaged in some form of BDSM which might seem to be threatening one's life and they filmed it/ took pictures of it no one apart from these people should be allowed to watch it? Huh? It makes no sense to me. And who defines what appears to threaten a person's life anyway?
Right secondly extreme pornography can be
* An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
This one I think is not quite as straight forwardly wrong as the one before. Actually, yes it is. There's that appears again. Seriously, what do you mean by appears? And what is serious injury? And so, if it's all staged and no one is actually hurt and everyone has given their consent to everything there's still a problem? Huh?
Thirdly and fourthly
* An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
* A person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal
These I can kind of agree with, I think bestiality is wrong, if it means I'm not open-minded enough, so be it. But really, can you ask for the consent of an animal? Necrophilia is another thing, personally I think it is wrong and I can't imagine why anyone would want to have sex with a corpse or even watch someone else have sex with a corpse, although I suppose you could stage that. But then, I think maybe you are just a bit wrong if you enjoy watching people fucking people masked as corpses. I can tolerate a lot of "kinks" but perhaps that goes a bit far.
Oh, and here are 'Reasons why you should oppose this'.
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Hm. I can't be asked (OMG, I just publicly wrote down 'can't be asked' Oh dear.) to elaborate more. I probably should but pff. The weather is so nice, it's hard to rant when the sun is so shiny. Although I think I might be coming up with a cold though, which is like really, really ridiculously annoying when the sun is shining. Pff.
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