A widespread taste for proverb

 A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
  J. G. Ballard

 For 25 years, I would have said that the pro-life issue is the most pressing threat to America morally, but pornography has overtaken it, ... More people's lives are being destroyed on a daily basis by addiction to pornography than through abortion.

 [Miller has] made a threat that, if he is extradited, he will kill Americans, ... And based on our experience and knowledge of this individual, we believe the threat is sufficiently specific and credible to justify alerting the American citizens on the island.

 The country is facing a quite extraordinary and unnoticed extinction crisis, or at least the threat of one.

 I remember ... how crazy this place was. I kind of got my first taste. We went downtown and saw everybody going nuts. That's really the first time I got a taste of this rivalry and what it means to everybody.

 By and large people had no idea that the trade this largely affected as many species and poses such a great extinction threat.

 The most advanced organisms at the time were bacteria, so there isn't a big extinction event you can identify as cut-and-dry as the extinction of the dinosaurs.

 Look at what it means to energy, to transportation, to communications. What you find out is there is just as much threat in Iowa as there is in other states, may not have population density, but doesn't mean we don't have the threat.

 The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
  Susan Sontag

 But despite this shared perception of the threat, there is disagreement over the most effective means to counter the threat. Some European countries continue to argue that terrorism is merely -- or mainly -- a criminal problem.

 The more widespread it becomes, the greater the possibility that the (bird flu) virus could become altered and become more of a threat to the human population.

 This is the first time that Ebola has been identified as a widespread threat to gorilla and chimp populations in the region.

 Not only have we seen an increase in reports of Internet child pornography, but the victims are becoming younger and the images are becoming more graphic and violent. To eliminate the commercial viability of child pornography, we must stop the flow of money. To do that, we need the involvement of the world's leaders in the payments industry and the Internet. The founding members of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography are to be commended for joining this critical fight.

 There's no good that comes from pornography. I mean it separates families. We know people personally that are in the process of possibly getting a divorce because of pornography.

 Although we take these threats very seriously, we found the authenticity of the threat questionable. A widespread announcement may have caused undo concern.


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