Sunday, March 7, 2010

What's wrong with this picture?

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I used to believe DownloadHelper wasn't necessarily trying to help people get into porn. Now, there's no doubt they are. See the horrified look on the wife's face in the picture above? How does hiding the source of the horror and denying its existence make things any more right? All it does is grant a sense of justification and false moral security.

Does anyone else find anything wrong with helping people sneak behind their spouse and children's backs and pour filth into their own home? Deceiving your family is destructive. If you feel like you have to hide something from them, you shouldn't involve yourself in it.

Video DownloadHelper is a useful browser add-on with legitimate and wholesome uses. It's very helpful for getting content for public domain and fair-use projects. It also has a patch available that excludes video sites specifically for "adult" content. However, DownloadHelper's willingness to support the forces that destroy families makes me think I should denounce their services to everyone I know.

They demonstrate a mentality that people should be able to consume sexually explicit material, and that hiding such material from their families protects them from any damage it could cause. This is wrong. Consuming such material inevitably damages relationships and social, mental, and emotional health.

If that last picture didn't convince you, here's another excerpt from the lower left area of their home page:


If you're using this product in the way its Web site is encouraging you to, this should give your conscience a twinge. But its creators are apparently not afraid of any such discomfort in your conscience. That's not much of a compliment to your character or theirs.

Spouses: Don't be fooled. It is not okay for your partner to bring porn into your marriage and justify it by hiding it from you. It is not just their own private matter.

Here's the offending page:
http://update.downloadhelper.net/update/index-safe.html

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