I wrote:
A photgraph of me in Paris is not the same thing as me being in Paris. Even if I look at the photograph of me in Paris whilst I am actuallty in Paris, the photpgraph is not the same as me being in Paris. >>
We are splitting hairs and arguing semantics.
No, I'm, using an anology, and a fairly striaghtforward one at that, to make my point.
I will just have to scratch my head and continue to wonder how pornography, for you, does not have anything to do with sex, graphic
Again you are misrepresenting what I said. I did not say that pornography had nothing to do with sex. That would be ridiculous, and I invite anyone to check back through what I've posted to acertain that that was not what I said.
What I said was that they are seperate but connected.
A photpgraph of the Eiffel Tower is not the Eiffel Tower. But they are related objects. Got it?
or otherwise...just as I wonder how thinking, being or reading about paris might sometimes have nothing to do with France.
Again, not what I said. Thinking and reading about France are unequivocally not BEING IN FRANCE. I can read and think about Paris without being in France. In fact I'm going to...
<reaches for the 'Les MIserables'>
Right, just read a paragraph set in Paris. Nope, I'm still in London.
Just as I can go to a website now and read a pornographic story, but that isn't having sex.
See?
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