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they look to the government. And the fact that the government is absent in this most powerful of areas makes the "challenge of morality" all the more potent.

But I certainly do not think the Internet is to blame. The phrase "Don't kill the messenger" comes to mind.

People take this stuff too personally anyway-most of what they call morality is really just an excuse to attempt to remake your life in their image. The real challenges to morality lie in the ideas being spread on the Internet. A lie catches fire there just as quickly in real life and spreads even faster. That is the true moral battlefield, over the ideas that influence war and peace and freedom, the things that really add up to something substantial. And maybe I spoke in too concrete of terms when I called these activities revelation, maybe they are just some semi-random something done to kill time; maybe we should not take these immoral things that harm no one so seriously! People who lament wasted time have just done it twice.

The world is full of challenges and things are of course more of a challenge the more you want to do them-the question of whether to give in or not is personal and subjective. And most importantly has nothing to do with the Internet. Now I really have to be going. I've got some, er, challenges to morality to look up. You know, for research.

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