A massive debate breaks out about pornography among conservatives, impeachment plows ahead,

and the Inspector General of the Justice Department shreds the FBI.

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slash Ben. Okay, so there is this, don't worry, I'm going to get to all the news. I'm going to get to

impeachment. I'm going to get to the Inspector General of the DOJ, who is attacking the FBI. We're going

to get to the 2020 rights. Like all of it. We'll get to it. But there is this fascinating and I think important debate that's now happening among conservatives over pornography, which is weird,

right? It's weird because pretty much all conservatives agree. Pornography bad. If you are a moral

human being, I think that you agree pornography is not an inherent good for human beings. There are good

scientific studies showing the effect of pornography

on the human brain, does have a drug-like effect on the human brain because there is a release of

serotonin because it does prompt certain brain activity that is addictive in nature. Pornography

is indeed a major addiction problem, particularly for young men. It is enervating for the sex

life. It is degrading to women.

I wrote an entire book on pornography is my second book all the way back in 2005 about the

evils of pornography in American society. So I am very much on board with the idea that

pornography is an evil and that consuming pornography is a moral bad. But there's a big debate

that is broken out among conservatives about how involved the government should be in regulating pornography.

And the debate isn't really over pornography.

The debate is really over what the role of government ought to be generally.

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