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Pornography. Drunk Drivers. Dehumanization of Work

This study will consider two issues---pornography and random road blocks to test for drunk drivers---in order to consider the conflict between the rights of the individual and the rights of the community. The two issues make clear that each case must be treated as a unique situation, but at the same time there are clear lines to be drawn in each case. The argument here will be that pornography is an area where individual rights should prevail, while random road blocks for drunk driving are acceptable as an indication of the importance of community rights. The arguments of Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance," Alexis de Tocqueville in "Democracy in America," and Robert Bellah, et al. in Habits of the Heart will be used to bolster this argument. A certain amount of speculation will be required in this study, for the writers do not directly address the issues of pornography and random traffic stops to check for drunk drivers.

On first glance, it would seem that Ralph Waldo Emerson's lofty defense of individualism could hardly be used as an argument for the right of the individual to create or purchase pornography as he or she wishes. However, it is the argument here that Emerson would indeed permit the free distribution of pornography. It seems fair to say that Emerson would likely limit the legitimate consideration of pornography in this regard to those works which are consensually entered into by adults and not children, and that the activity does not include anything which would violate the "integrity" of the individual adults, including violence.

In "Self-Reliance" Emerson argues that the only truly independent and free individual and thinker is the one who relies, in human terms, entirely on himself or herself to determine his or her own principles and actions. This argument can be reasonably extended even to those areas of life, such as pornography, whose worth to the individual is questionable. The individual who lets a...

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