James Glassman: Porn and Video violence implicated in falling teen pregnancy and violence rates? It turns out that increases in Porn and Video game viewing by teens are correlated with lower levels of teen social pathology. Correlation is not causation but it does illustrate how complicated our social arrangements are and how the 'obvious' answers (in this case, Monkey see, Monkey do) often fall wide of the mark. It does not follow that the trend towards more porn and violence viewing is "OK" much less desirable, but it should give all of us who think we have the 'answers' to life's problems pause before demanding the power to force our views on others.
It's complicated out there folks. And the default position should be leave well enough alone. Unless you have spectacular evidence to the contrary.
And we'll wan't to see those numbers and that math, please.
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