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Maybe I'm confused, because i thought that's what OP was saying she was saying explicitly.
On a tangent, were I to sit down with someone like Aella and try to discuss whether porn was empirically bad, we'd never even get to the empirical part because we'd have such different worldviews that we wouldn't be able to operationalized 'bad'. I'm all for finding common ground, but most of the ground to cover on porn is too tied to conflicting foundational moral visions, that it's...well... about as effective as masturbating.
I meant the charitable version is that she thinks it's empirically true that porn is bad, but she can't prove it. The uncharitable version is that she doesn't actually care whether porn is "bad" in the sense of being a net negative in any measurable way, she just doesn't like it, and would still oppose it even if theoretically we "proved" the opposite.
It's rather like the distinction you are making between Sagan's dragon and Russel's teapot. One is literally an unfalsifiable belief that is constructed to be unfalsifiable; the other is a belief that is currently unfalsifiable, but given much greater capacity to collect evidence, it could be falsified. If you believe in Russel's teapot, then you could be convinced you were wrong if we became able to find literally any object in the solar system. If you believe in Sagan's dragon, nothing will ever convince you, and nothing ever could convince you, that it doesn't exist.
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