Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation

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315. It's all art in one form or another.

That's what art does. It pushes experience and imagination as close together as possible until you can't tell the difference. That facilitates shared experience with another.

I'm not passionate about violence beyond a passion for understanding it as a part of the human condition.

Acting is a hard job that makes people crazy sometimes. I've heard people refer to artmaking as "therapy". Nothing could be further from the truth. If artmaking were therapeutic artists would be the happiest most sell adjusted people in the world and that's obviously not the case. I know that from experience. But we do it anyway.

At issue is not art but quality. Monica Bellucci can make an important film about rape, but rape porn is just porn. Unfortunately there is no functional difference between the two any more than there is any difference between Picasso and Howard Finster. Or Thomas Kinkcaid.

We can't regulate quality because we can't regulate peoples feelings.