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Ypsidixit - 2007-10-13 11:12:56
Disclaimer: Y. is divorced too. But, or perhaps, so, I don't run around suing people on "morality" grounds. Sheesh.
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Jim Karnopp - 2007-10-13 13:58:49
I remember when I was younger going on a family vacation with my parents to California. We got to a hotel one night, and when we entered our room we found out that the hotel had accidentally booked the room to another couple at the same time. When we opened the door to the room, the couple was on the bed, well doing what couples do in hotels. It is now thirty years later, and I don't feel I am scared by the event at all. I never even though that they could be sued for letting me see something that is immoral. I guess my morals are different though. I too am divorced, and my main view on morals is that you do unto others as you would have done to you. I would hate to be sued for an accident like that where there was no intent, and I wouldn't be very happy if someone did it to me. The fact that she won the case is far more disturbing to me than the fact that her kids were subjected to a few seconds of porn.
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Ypsidixit - 2007-10-13 14:49:54
That sounds to me like the voice of reason. The lack of intent to harm is a good point. One wonders why it apparently didn't come into play at court. Was this, I wonder, a tort suit perhaps filed against the hotel's "negligence"? If so, one also wonders why the defendant didn't counter-charge "contributory negligence," since 1. she allowed the kids to turn on the TV while 2. in a motel where it is common knowledge that p0rn is usually available, somehow, on the TV. Hmm.

But what do I know. At any rate, by mortgaging the house and raising Cain, she's successfully demonstrated to her own and all other onlooking kids that p0rn is powerful and threatening, thus likely arousing their curiosity moreso than if she'd simply turned it off and done something else with the kids, like take a walk or play a game.
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