The logic of Rectangle's argument is flawless. He is right.
I also think that FeatherEndeavor is right to say that on a site like this we often pursue questions out of CURIOSITY. This site - in fact the whole internet - is an environment where we can take fantasy and speculation to places where we would NEVER go in real life. A lot of what we discuss here is about testing and exploring boundaries, going up closer to them than we could or would want to in reality, and just mapping out the territory in our minds to get a better understanding of what we think about things, and to see what the world contains, and what the deeper regions of our own desires and impulses contain.
People have done this since the beginning of time - before the internet we had other ways to travel in our imaginations, in art and literature and drama and pornography, and there has always been an ambiguity and uneasiness when we push at the edges in that realm of imagination.
The internet now gives us a collective space where our inner lives can actually mingle and communicate with each other and are potentially wide open to each other. It's a bit like being able to read each other's thoughts, and on a site like this one we are giving each other access to our curiosity and boundary-pushing speculations and we just have to trust that each person knows where fantasy ends and the moral boundaries of real life begin.
I wouldn't jump to any uncharitable conclusions about the motives of the OP of this thread based on one short and straightforward question. I've sometimes wondered the same thing about the Dark/Deep Web. And I am absolutely certain of where my moral boundaries lie in real life.
Human beings are curious creatures.
I also think that FeatherEndeavor is right to say that on a site like this we often pursue questions out of CURIOSITY. This site - in fact the whole internet - is an environment where we can take fantasy and speculation to places where we would NEVER go in real life. A lot of what we discuss here is about testing and exploring boundaries, going up closer to them than we could or would want to in reality, and just mapping out the territory in our minds to get a better understanding of what we think about things, and to see what the world contains, and what the deeper regions of our own desires and impulses contain.
People have done this since the beginning of time - before the internet we had other ways to travel in our imaginations, in art and literature and drama and pornography, and there has always been an ambiguity and uneasiness when we push at the edges in that realm of imagination.
The internet now gives us a collective space where our inner lives can actually mingle and communicate with each other and are potentially wide open to each other. It's a bit like being able to read each other's thoughts, and on a site like this one we are giving each other access to our curiosity and boundary-pushing speculations and we just have to trust that each person knows where fantasy ends and the moral boundaries of real life begin.
I wouldn't jump to any uncharitable conclusions about the motives of the OP of this thread based on one short and straightforward question. I've sometimes wondered the same thing about the Dark/Deep Web. And I am absolutely certain of where my moral boundaries lie in real life.
Human beings are curious creatures.
