I feel like I know how Diogenese would rebut that logic.

I saw a guy doing moral outrage that men sometimes goon it crazy style in public.

It's pixels. It's thousands of pixels arranged on a screen that make your imagination see a real person.

When people act like it's indecent I'm always like, "oh no the witch pixels have formed the horny configuration"

Just taking the piss btw, read what you want in public it's a damn book. Stores still sell brown paper bags to use as covers, right?

Next let's compare dropping bombs to reading about the war.

The cover shows a man embracing a woman!

Oh no, the cynical philosopher has formed the horny configuration?

any decent witch should know that intent is just as important as the method of casting the spell

When my grandma died, she had like a hundred of those books stashed around the house. Also, vodka in Maalox bottles. It was the first time I found out that grandmas can be freaks too lol

It's just four colours of dots arranged to make you imagine Juicy Jugs.

Let's contrast instead!

"Goon it crazy style" was just to be funny. What's the actual difference in watching porn in public and smut novels if you're not jorkin it and nobody sees the screen?

Yeah, this meme is a bit too reductionist to my taste.

Your own example would be more akin to watching a documentary vs reading about it. No one actually dies by you doing so.

Men get visible boners, women don't.

Unless you have a thermal camera, there's no way to know what she's reading (if it's on an e-reader at least)

Nah, he'd probably just fuck a dog in the public square and laugh and say that all human morality is an absurd construct used to enslave the minds of the uncritical masses

The sentence was supposed to be funny, too.

That's not like any of the examples. Someone is equating reading smutty romance to public masturbation.

I honestly didn't see this going in this direction, I'm pretty fascinated by the reaction here.

this can be applied to anything

theyre guns
theyre a hump of firey metal
you need to regulate metal?
hahahahahahahaaaaha

Once I tried to determine the least amount of pixels in a grid that would undeniably be considered lewd. 3x3 pixels can sort of contain a penis, but 2x2 pixels? Idk. But undeniably? Probably more. There must be a minimum number of pixels where the image would be clearly "inappropriate".

Oh shit, are we doing mspaintadventures reactions now?

Except there's no imagination required if you're displaying an image. An accidental glance at one is very different than the other.

Overall, poor comparison, 2/10.

Not a great comparison--a better one would be reading something like Playboy in public, if the cover were no more "scandalous" than the cover of a smutty romance novel. In this case, other people know what you're doing.

If you're watching a video and no one can see the screen (and you're not gooning it crazy style) then there's no problem, and no controversy--you're being discreet.

Someone is equating reading smutty romance to public masturbation.

..to public watching nude images, not to masturbation.

Men get visible boners

In pretty rare cases (huge dick or no underwear + very thin fabric of pants)

... that men sometimes goon it crazy style in public.

The only "someone" I've seen talking about public masturbation is you. :/ The "Goon it crazy" was clearly a hyperbole, given this posts' context.

And I'm not too surprised about the reaction. While the OP (from Bluesky, not you) definitely made a brand new sentence, the take is not particularly bright.

She reads romance novels, someone else look at porn. My thought has always been “you prefer words, they prefer pictures, but fundamentally it’s no different”

The “Goon it crazy” was clearly a hyperbole

So ...so was the sentence?

Did someone take a lighthearted meme community too seriously?

Reminds me of this book series called the Laundry Files. It is a unique mix between Men in Black, Lovecraftian Eldritch and Cosmic Horror, and The Office. In it, magic, monsters, interdimensional beings, eldritch gods, etc. are all real, a constant threat, and kept entirely hidden from the public by secret government organizations made up mostly of conscripted engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc. who unwittingly discovered some deeper aspect of the universe.

See, math and algorithms describe the rules and logic of the universe, and since the universe is actually filled with the occult, sometimes that math actually taps into aspects of the universe they weren't expecting. Some can generate apparent magical effects. Some touch into realms whose inhabitants want released or don't want to be bothered. Some algorithms have the capability of waking the great old ones that will destroy the world.

So those people who get too close to such discoveries, they are quickly taken into custody, made to understand the secret nature and apocalyptic danger of the universe that they have been unknowningly dabbling with, conscripted into service of the highly bureaucratic Laundry Files to help protect the world from it, and bound with magical wards to prevent them from speaking of any of it with anyone outside of the organization.

Applied mathematics and computer science are the magic spells of this universe. The increasing amount of compute in the world is pulling us ever close to the end of the universe. It's a problem. But also, Susan in finance won't approve a new coffe maker in the break room and a Succubus is your new supervisor. That's the vibe this series brings. I love it.

The OPs' sentence? Yes clearly.

Yours? I'm not entirely convinced. Or at least it's not only a hyperbole, given your other comments in this thread.

Probably somewhere in the range from 8x8 to 16x16. Favicons are 16x16 I think, and that's enough for porn sites to show boobs or something.

What.

"Goon crazy style" is slang for watching porn. It also happens to be a hyperbole, since watching porn clearly isn't as bad as jerking yourself to a medical condition.

What should the non-hyperbolic version of "let’s compare dropping bombs to reading about the war." (assuming that's the sentence) have been?

To me it appears that you tried making a comparison of VerilyFemme's comment under a wrong assumption (eg. that it was about public masturbation), and now are trying to cover it up by calling it a hyperbole.

Anyway, as you stated I'm here to laugh, and not to write reports about misunderstandings taken to the next level.

Gooning can also mean "to be in a state of sexual arousal"

If nobody sees the screen, who would be doing moral outrage?

Gooning always meant masturbating to me.

I think OC confused the number of colors you need on a screen: RGB are just 3 colors.

you can read whatever you want and I'm not going to judge you but personally my frame of mind when horny is not something I want to experience in public

with this in mind, by extension I understand the viewpoint of "people should not have that frame of mind in public"

that being said I'm not gonna police anyone, and I also don't care if you're rock hard or gooping down there cause of something you're reading. I would just prefer not to be

TIL I have a huge dick. Or maybe my denim jeans aren't as thick as I thought they were?

I was going for CMYK printing for a magazine in a public bus to parallel the OOPs scenario

The same people outraging morally in these instances: the online

This is fucking stupid. The moral outrage at smut is also stupid, but this is a monumentally idiotic way to argue that point. The Turner Diaries are also 'just letters,' as are the bible, the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation techniques' manual, the 'Letter From a Birmingham Jail,' Romeo & Juliet, Anti-Oedipus, and your friend's suicide note.

Ah, that makes sense.

Porn is just pixels so you should have no problem with me watching on the subway with my laptop chuddy

Well, we're contrasting.

Essentially it would be less problematic, in your opinion?

I thought it was a perfect 5/7 comparison, but I will add that score to the aggregate.

Yeah, basically this.

I think he'd also use the extreme liberty of the argument "words can't hurt you, you puritain prudes" to find out how committed to that argument people really were. And I don't think it would take long.

Is this loss

Downvoting your comment only supports your argument. Hilarious.

Are you really going to call me a terrorist just because I want to shoot some neutrons at a cluster of enriched uranium in a populated area? Seriously?

People in here comparing looking at porn images in public as if it's comparable to a smutty book. I dunno, man. It would take effort to read someone else's book in order to know what it's even saying. But pulling up a pornographic image doesn't take any work to comprehend. One requires hovering over someone's shoulder, getting in their space, and actively trying to figure out what they're reading. The other requires no more than a glance around.

As far as being appropriate in public, they really can't be compared.

unique mix between Men in Black, Lovecraftian Eldritch and Cosmic Horror, and The Office

sounds like last week's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game at my house.