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WAAAYYYYYYYYY to many big words rammed together for me to follow.
I am a simple man :)

I feel like I am likely the biggest 'prude' or 'traditional moralist' posting on this forum, and I am fine with that.
Having established that, I do not intend to come across as "Hypermoral or politically correct". Neither are beneficial to society.

(my own words)
Hypermorality is the claim to righteousness(I do only what is right) without any demonstration of empathy.
Political Correctness is the claim to empathy without any demonstration of empathy.

(Dictionary)
Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

This same discussion could apply to religion, politics, etc... for this discussion it is pornography.
While just stating that something is a 'basic human right' does not make it so, we can for the most part agree that a certain amount of freedom should be considered a 'basic human right', I do not believe anyone here is arguing that.

So as humans we for the most part agree that we should be able to discuss and or view topics on religion, politics, pornography, etc....
This is where it gets interesting.....
As individuals we have each also agreed to some extent that those topics should be limited in certain areas, times, or locations. We have done this when registering to many many different sites and communities around the internet including this one we are on right now.
There is no argument here, we have all already agreed to this.

So to recap, we agree that we should have freedom, and we also agree that there should be limits to that freedom.

Then it is a matter of discussing to what extent those freedoms and limits should be, right?

Lets ignore that we have already agreed this is not the place for that, just for the sake of this discussion.

When involved with any community or culture different things are expected as the 'normal' behavior.
(lets not discuss rather the behavior is 'right or wrong', just that is normally expected)

Lets use internet examples,
I am part of a boat building forum (no surprise there right?) At 39 I am on the younger end of the age range of posters. Threads are primarily boat related, building, rebuilding, fishing, family, kids, vacations, guns, old people jokes, and sometimes a minimal amount of politics. Just today there was a discussion about why forum users need to be registered before posting pictures, or viewing certain areas of the forum. They had an issue in the past with someone posting pornography and they had to crack down on it. This is a good example of a place where a specific community and their admins decided that was not the place for such freedom and they stopped it.

I have an account on Reddit, it has a very diverse range of information and postings. They do allow pornography, but their rules are designed in a way that as a user I will only see that information if I desire to, it is supposed to be my choice. So here we have an example of a place where the community and their admins decided that it was such a place for this freedom as well as a place for allowing the freedom not to participate as well.

Just two examples, but the internet is full of the full spectrum of communities from ultra tight and clean to ultra raunchy and perverse. We have the freedom to go where we please and view what we wish, but it is our choice and we have expectations on what we will see when we get there, esp. if we have been involved with the given community for any amount of time.

So back to here, we have a community. What do we expect when viewing threads here? What should we expect?
Remember this isn't about what I feel is 'moral' or what you feel is 'freedom', this is about what should we honestly and fairly expect.

On one hand we have the founder of the site and the current owner of the site both having posted strong feelings on the character of a person who hosts pornography. On the other hand we have Jamira who has in this very thread posted his works on a nude statue. This is conflicting and honestly makes it more difficult for me to know what to expect. Not knowing what to expect the smart thing is to expect the 'worst' if it is something that concerns you, right?

Jamira is my friend and I respect his talents and his experiences in life, for some reason even though we are completely different from each other, he seems to respect me as well. He knows that I find content like that offensive, just like I know that my religious and moral beliefs are not for him. That is not what our friendship is based upon, and so it does not matter.

I opened your link to a bunch of internet arguing tactics, sorry, but I have no interest in such things. I am not here to fight, I am here to talk to friends from around the world. Leave the fighting to someone else.

I touched on it before, but hypermorality, political correctness, and judgments are not beneficial for society, what we need is more empathy.
It is not about responsibility or responsibility reversal, it is about the need for empathy from all. We need empathy today from all ages, races, creeds, cultures, etc...

I do not feel like I am some love child of the 60s preaching peace for the earth, there will always be conflict, and it should be delt with, often with force, but that is not the solution to a majority of our issues, empathy is.

 

I'm curious about the cost of your custom aluminum parts as well. (my guess is cost prohibitive for a once only run)

 

Is there a place like this,
https://www.maker-space.de/
near you?

Perhaps you could purchase aluminum bar stock and mill your own brackets?
Aluminum stock would probably be more expensive buying yourself than a buisness could purchase it, but you could save money perhaps by doing the work yourself? I would guess a lot of your knowledge would cross over to the machines they use at the maker space?

 

I've seen quite a few DIY projects on Redit and Imgur where people made furniture by using recycled wooden pallets. If you're able to source a bunch of old pallets, and are not afraid of doing some work yourself, you could try something like that. Mostly they start off by glueing and clamping pieces of wood together to create new boards. They you can then glue together to form bigger boards.

Wash, rinse, repeat, until you have the thickness and length you are looking for. Should hopefully mean you end up with a lot cheaper solution (not counting your time, of course). The downside is that you'll probably need access to some good tools (bandsaw, sanders, tons of clamps).

 

I plan on manually sanding, even though I'm getting a nice dremel set for Christmas.

I think there is to great a chance of causing damage to the detail if using a mechanical sander.

 

I am not an architect or designer, 'looks' are not something I am good at picturing or deciding. (just ask my wife)

The table you show here is 4 planks + 4 legs correct?
How would it look if you just used the two large planks (the horizontal surfaces) held together by 4 peices of 1" allthread with 16 nuts and 16 washers?

The only 'machining' required would be drilling the 8 holes(4 per plank) and countersinking (counterboring?) them.
Clearcoat/epoxy/varnish/whatever the wood and then put it together.

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