Fastfission said:
Ah yes, but now you are making a claim that it is better to be offensive to some than silly to others. Which is worth interrogating a bit further. ;-)
In this particular case I don't think it's wrong to risk offending people. Someone who complains about the Pioneer plaque on grounds of offense taken at the nudity, well it's a bit extreme. Even if there are fifty million of them, we shouldn't cave in to such excessive prudery. In my opinion, people wwho are easily shocked by visual images of nudity or sex should not use their web browsers on the default setting. We would be doing them a big favor if we advised them to consult their browser documentation, because if they took that advice they would never be unduly shocked by pictorial web content again. For those who favor cost-benefit analysis (I don't, I'm just a pragmatist who has arrived at the conclusion that server-based presentation management is broken) this seems like the optimal path.