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Chapter 32 Self Quiz
The Case Against Pornography: An Assessment, Joel Feinberg
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Which of the following does Feinberg note as being offered as justification for the control of pornography?
concern about defamation
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concern about incitement
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concern about offense
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all of the above
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Feinberg argues that the claim that pornography defames women
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is unlikely to succeed as a justification for control of pornography because its conflict with the freedom of expression.
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is unlikely to succeed as a justification for control of pornography because no one believes women are defamed.
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provides a welcome starting point for the debate.
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Feinberg observes that the degrading view of women and the defamatory beliefs about women that pornography is claimed to cause
are caused by the stimulus of the work, in the context, on the expectations, attitudes, and beliefs the viewer brings with him to the work.
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are produced in the consumer by explicit statements asserted with the intent to convince the reader or auditor of their truth.
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are the result of an authority’s arguments.
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are temporary, mild, and not easily quantified.
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The claim that violent pornography should be controlled because it promotes rape and violence
requires more than evidence of a causal relationship between pornography and violence.
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requires evidence of a causal relationship between pornography and violence, but no such evidence has yet been offered.
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is inconsistent with the empirical evidence currently available, which demonstrates no causal connection between pornography and violence.
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is of legal interest but has no moral import.
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Feinberg is skeptical that banning pornography will significantly reduce sexual violence because
pornography incites actions that people otherwise would not undertake.
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the same degrading attitudes that give rise to violent pornography would be manifest in other forms of artistic expression.
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the core of the problem, machismo, will remain.
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there is no reason to believe pornography and violence to women are linked at all.
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Feinberg holds that the law may legitimately be used to restrict the liberty of pornographers to produce and distribute, and their customers to purchase and use, erotic materials that are violently abusive of women.
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Feinberg is careful to distinguish between defamation and incitement.
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Feinberg agrees that there is a clear link between pornography and violence toward women.
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Pornography, Feinberg claims, asserts damaging falsehoods about women.
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Feinberg’s position would likely not change even if more evidence were found clearly linking pornography and violence to women.
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