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Re: Something not right about Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads?
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Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:59:39 GMT
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> From: "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net>
I'm just gonna snip all that other stuff, because media is what I've been
talking about.
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> I've mentioned this here before (I think) but about 15 months ago, I was
> setting up our home theater system, and the TV tuner accidentally got set to a
> station. It was about 2:00 PM. Something caught my interest and it turned
> out
> to be this sleazy talk-show that I'd heard about but never seen. There was a
> young woman describing in detail the way her pervert client would pay her to
> produce excrement, urine, and vommit for his cullinary and sexual pleasure.
> _I_ was shocked. I had never once in my life, previous to that time,
> expressed
> a pro-censorship stance. I do now. That should not appear on the public air
> waves. Really, it should never, but certainly not in the early afternoon. My
> son was at school, but what if he had been home, and while I was lying down in
> my room, or mowing the lawn or whatever, had stumbled across that. At five,
> I'd prefer he not be exposed to scatalogical sexual fetishes.
At five, he'd likely have changed the station to cartoons or some such. I
know I would have at that age. Unless your five-year-old displays an
unusually precocious ability to follow TV debates.
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> And the stance that parents should control 100% of their childrens' lives is
> horse pucky. There are degrees of reasonable care, and I'm sure that children
> have been exposed to such crap :-) without their parents' knowledge.
Well that's just a bummer. Better keep 'em in the house if you don't want
them to see anything.
Even though I'm on the other side of the fence from you, I think I turned
out to be a pretty decent person. I've watched all sorts of stuff on TV, and
even if I watched violent cartoons on TV as a kid, my parents were careful
to educate me that it was make-believe and not acceptable behavior in real
life. They understood that they couldn't shield me from everything, so they
took the position of educating me when I saw things.
I dunno, maybe you think totally sheltering your kids is good. That's your
prerogative.
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> > I don't mind ratings systems or age limits on things that may be offensive
> > or of a mature nature. What I dislike are Irate Parent Groups that want to
> > ban something because they don't like it.
>
> In general, me too. See the exception above.
Your exception is only the first step toward total censorship.
~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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