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Only fascists censor based on idealogical content.
Mods are not fascists.
Therefore you have nothing to worry about.
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This is one of those A implies B, B imples C, A implies C argument.. and its fatally flawed. There are plently of people who censor beased on idealogical content.. and they're not all fascists.
Furthermore, George Orwell and I tend to agree on the point:
" ... the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."
Realistically, you're describing everyone. In its strictest (and overused sense), we're ALL fascists, and do not necessarily censor ideas. So the logical implication A->B does not hold.
On the discussion at hand-- there is certainly a fine line between manipulation to ensure success and rape (date rape). They're both effective from a breeding standpoint, as anything that helps you suceed in mating is a good thing. HOWEVER, as humans, we subdue those primal insticts in favor of civility. The line of civility is again thin, but I think most of the population regards manipulation with FORETHOUGHT and INTENT as being unethical. If you watch a porn with a girl, simply becuase you enjoy it and you think she might enjoy it, and it ends up in sex.. that's one thing. But if you plan, before hand, to watch porn -- knowing that it will make her more desirous.. society would frown on that. These are both inner feelings, and cannot be analysed by anyone but the original thinker.
Personally, I think predictively monitoring a woman's menstrual cycle in an effort to map "peak-hornyness" is something that only true scientests should be doing. If you're doing it with the FORETHOGUHT and INTENT to make a girl sleep with you, then its simultaneously unethical and creepy.