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> In fact, why is possession of anything a crime?

Child pornography. Do you want possession to not be a crime?

This is one of the most fascinating cases since it is one of the core limitations of free speech. Richard Stallman actually has some very interesting and very controversial arguments about this in regards to speech.



I think the government has gone way overboard on sentencing of having a video, as abhorrent as it may be. If you can take the morality out of it.


I'm fairly confident that the "anything" in GP refers to the concept of "any substance", as in flour, butter, chunks of metal, kilo of coke, some amount of olive oil, etc. Y'know, the usual stuff, not something like your example.




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