Originally Posted by
PTravel
Please explain why the mere fact that someone is reading a Playboy would be offensive to another passenger? We're not talking about someone standing up and displaying the centerfold, only sitting there reading a magazine. I'm sure that I would find the content of much of what you read offensive. Will you refrain from reading it on the airplane, solely because I find it offensive?
What was the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity/pornography? "I know it when I see it," or some such thing? Yes, you're just sitting there reading a magazine. If I want to bring a copy of Big Jugs Unlimited on a plane and read it, is that OK? I hear the articles are quite informative.
Somewhere between moral absolutism and moral relativism is where we all must live.