In an e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate of Valleywag, Steve Jobs repeatedly referred to Apple's platforms as providing freedom.  "Freedom from programs that steal your private data," he says, "Freedom from programs that trash your battery.  Freedom from porn.  Yup, freedom."

Freedom is not from it is of.  Freedom of expression, not from it.  But that's not what I'm writing about.  Tate's response included the line, "Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree."  Jobs added in a later e-mail,

"And you might care more about porn when you have kids..."

I have simply had enough of the world's Helen Lovejoy complex.  In school, teachers loved to use the word respect.  How we should all have respect.  I never could quite get a handle on what they meant exactly, but I can tell you this: it's about time the world's children were treated with some.

Children aren't so frail as to be driven to delinquency by seeing a breast.  They aren't so mindless as to be turned into serial killers by playing a videogame.  They aren't so ignorant not to deserve the truth.  And they aren't so worthless as to be used for the sake of pushing a political agenda.

They aren't your pets and they aren't your props.  Argue all you want about what causes harm, but include yourselves.  We're all people, and quit trying to pretend otherwise.