Is Porn A Religious Issue?
In front of TV, I saw a bunch of people discussing the merit of the new anti porn regulations.
A Muslim candidate says that the anti porn regulation is not a Muslim issue. She argued that in US, the Christians oppose porn too.
This while in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, kids are free to watch and buy porn in various open markets.
I agree with her.
Porn issue is not religious issue, but hatred issue.
The way we evolve is when we’re not at war we’re in a race. Freedom means competition. So those who are uncompetitive hate freedom.
And those people will use religious issues to gain followers.
The religions that they use are usually the religion of majority.
In US, that’s Christianity. In Indonesia, that’s Muslims.
But why religions?
Because you cannot use science to support prejudices. It’s difficult. More over, scientific conclusions tend to have higher accuracy. Hence, it’s not very flexible.
So bigots with hidden agenda against those giving better offer usually resort to religions.
In fact, that’s probably why so many religious people oppose porn. Opposition of porn is what makes religions sale in the first place.
Humans’ maximizes profit. However, humans also want to inflict suffering toward others.
Humans will usually compare a benefit a certain freedom will do to some people. If some people are able to take advantage of a particular freedom way more than them, humans will tend to oppose that freedom.
For example, beautiful women are benefited more by porn than the ugly women because beautiful women can make more money in porn. Hence, ugly women oppose porn. It’s the same reason why many poor males oppose polygamy.
Religions teach self sacrifice and that does motivate many humans to teach religions to others.
It doesn’t change the sort of people that demand violation of individual freedom. Uncompetitive bigots that hate those who give better offers more than they hate thieves, burglars, and robbers.