April 2006 (UTC) 

 Anetode: 1. Are you suggesting that, if distributing photographs of rape were legal, it would be a good idea for wikipedia? If so, you and I disagree more profoundly than we will be able to work out here. Photographs of rape share with the photograph in dispute here two material characteristics: they are exploitative, and they are likely to be found offensive to most wikipedia readers. 2. While you seem to agree with my primary objection, the question of consent by the photographic subject (or at least its proxy, copyright), you disagree with my secondary objection, that of upsetting readers without informing them. Why, all things being equal, should we wish to upset people? Are you such a free speech absolutist that you wish to live in a society where a man is free to follow your mother, your wife, your children down the street, naked, masturbating, yelling about how much he'd like to fuck them? After all, he's just "informing them" of a fact, and communicating visual information about profane elements of the world they live in, right? While I don't trust our government to regulate obscenity, I do believe that some things are inappropriate for public display, and I do trust the wikipedia community to do define them. And I believe that the photo here qualifies. 20:46, 14