LATE TO THE PARTY ON THIS, and my first thought when I saw this was, "oh god, it's another TOK lesson" and thought my brain would leak out my ears.
(It hasn't yet.)
But I think I have to agree with you. While pedophilia is almost universally considered bad (it is, right? Pedophilia is bad in most, if not all, cultures?), if you can remove one thing due to a moral problem like this, then that means you have basically have the right to remove any item due to any moral problem. So then what happens if you've got, I dunno, a book on abortion? You might think abortion is amoral and want to remove it before it corrupts minds or whatever, but not everyone else thinks that way. It becomes too easy to impose your own opinions and beliefs on anyone else.
I guess. I dunno, man. These TOK-type questions make my head ache.
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(It hasn't yet.)
But I think I have to agree with you. While pedophilia is almost universally considered bad (it is, right? Pedophilia is bad in most, if not all, cultures?), if you can remove one thing due to a moral problem like this, then that means you have basically have the right to remove any item due to any moral problem. So then what happens if you've got, I dunno, a book on abortion? You might think abortion is amoral and want to remove it before it corrupts minds or whatever, but not everyone else thinks that way. It becomes too easy to impose your own opinions and beliefs on anyone else.
I guess. I dunno, man. These TOK-type questions make my head ache.