<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Who said anything about banning?<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 30, 2019, at 1:50 PM, BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 19:43, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat</span><br><span><extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tastes change, but I see it as moral progress that rape jokes aren’t seen as funny today. (In a similar manner, reading the Iliad (I return to it from time to time), I’ve never found the scolding of Thersites funny, though it seems like that is how it’s supposed to be taken.)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I'm not sure that banning rape jokes is moral progress at a time when</span><br><span>rape and sexual violence is the main theme in the massively popular</span><br><span>Game of Thrones series. And the books have many times more such events</span><br><span>than the TV series. It seems to be more PC display than anything else.</span><br><span>And, of course, the little story has no rude words in it at all. If</span><br><span>the reader wants to substitute filthy words then that is their</span><br><span>responsibility. Unless you are a mathematician of course - in which</span><br><span>case it is probably extremely erotic. :)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>BillK</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>