[WikiEN-l] Suggestions for a work-safe encyclopedia

Sun Apr 17 17:28:38 UTC 2005

Rebecca said:
> On 4/16/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Cranwell said:
>> Unless you see it and react to it, how can you know that you'll be
>> offended by it?  Don't ask me to second-guess your reaction if you
>> don't know yourself.
>
> Fallacious reasoning. There are some things which are reasonably
> likely to offend the vast majority of people on this Earth. Goatse is a
> fine example. Autofellatio is, most probably, another. It's hardly
> extreme to note that these are thus quite likely to offend people, and
> to link them accordingly.

That may be true of goatse and even possibly autofellation.  But a nude
scene from a PG13 movie?  I could not have guessed at the extreme
reactions it has provoked from people.
You have not demonstrated any fallacy.