How come nothing is cut and dry? Things would be so much easier if my fantasy world was allowed and there weren't such large grey areas. This morning in my journalism class my professor discussed Miller v. California, and I began thinking about the trial from a new perspective. I don't understand why we are put are faith in the Supreme Court to decide what has "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value."
If the Miller test is concerned with the average American then why do we let one demographic of society decide what us "average" Americans feel. I understand that in all realms of political life it is mostly white, upper-class heterosexual Christian men, but it still does not make sense to me. How can people that come from pretty much the same walks of life decide that they know what I find artistic? I am sure they wouldn't know and I probably wouldn't know their tastes because it is so subjective.
My point is that the water is still so murky in regards to laws affecting pornography, and I don't think the waters will clear up any faster by assuming one knows what the average American feels.
