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    If pornography silences by shaping male attitudes, the me... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Pornography silences women by undermining their capacity to perform certain speech acts.

    If pornography silences by shaping male attitudes, the mechanism is perlocutionary, not illocutionary, and perlocutionary effects cannot ground a rights-based silencing claim without proving specific causal harm.

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    • 1.Speech rights violations require demonstrable infringement of autonomous choice, not mere influence on attitudes or preferences.
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    • 2.Perlocutionary effects (causing beliefs/attitudes) differ categorically from illocutionary silencing (preventing utterance itself).
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    • 3.Without specific causal mechanisms linking content to concrete harm, attributing silencing to pornography risks circular reasoning.
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    • 1.Silencing need not be illocutionary; systematically shaping receptiveness to certain speakers constitutes epistemic silencing.
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    • 2.Requiring 'specific causal harm' proof sets an impossibly high standard absent for other recognized forms of discrimination or harm.
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    • 3.The illocutionary/perlocutionary distinction doesn't map cleanly to silencing—shaped attitudes directly undermine participatory capacity.
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    Key Terms

    Causal harm(as used in ethics and philosophy of law)
    Actual, provable damage or injury that is directly caused by a specific action—not just suspected or theoretical harm, but real consequences you can trace back to a cause.
    Illocutionary(as used in philosophy of language)
    Relating to the actual effect or intention behind what someone says, rather than just the literal words. For example, when you say 'Can you pass the salt?' you're not really asking about their ability—you're requesting the salt.
    Perlocutionary(as used in philosophy of language)
    The indirect effect that happens *because* someone said something—like how a scary story might make you feel afraid, or a persuasive argument might change your mind, even though those effects weren't guaranteed just by the words themselves.
    Rights-based claim(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    An argument that something is wrong or should be illegal because it violates someone's fundamental rights or freedoms.
    mechanism(Nineteenth-century scientific worldview that challenged interactionist dualism)
    The scientific and philosophical view that the physical world is causally closed and that all events are explicable solely in terms of physical laws
    silencing(Applied to the effect of pornography on women's speech)
    The undermining of a person's or group's capacity to perform certain speech acts, caused by the speech acts of others creating an inhibiting climate.

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