The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few.
Exactly, and last time I checked, there were more individuals above 18 in this country than there were minors. I don't see why parents of these people, and other individuals easily offended, can't just toughen up and modify their lives.
The greater need for society to be able to coexist peacefully should outweigh one person's need to hear or see violence.
Yet it must be said that governments that highly censored things, such as Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, were, below the surface, anything but peaceful.
They used to have Public Decency laws, where guidelines were created to keep things at a happy medium, but OH NO people had to prove how EDGY and sophisticated they were by debasing it. They had to prove what REBELS they were for ratings, and now everything's fallen to shit.
That is your personal opinion; there is room for others'.
The furor over being subjected to Janet Jackson's boobage during a family football game is proof in the pudding. You've already got blood and violence during football- you need boobs too? Non-cheerleader boobs I mean. Boobs are great, don't get me wrong, I like them, I keep a couple as pets, but that doesn't mean I want to SEE them when I'm munching cheetos with my kid, yknow?
Don't be watching "blood and violence" with your kid in the first place, first of all.
Second of all, the "boob" issue highlights another issue that needs to be addressed: what is offensive to some is not ofensive to others. I for one, absolutely could not care if my younger cousins (since I don't have a child) saw a breast on TV. As far as I'm concerned, it's a part of the human body. And how exactly would children know what they're seeing is absolutely offensive and terrible? I grew up listening to my dad regularly play songs with the words "Shit," "Damn," and "Hell" in them, and I didn't even stop to scrutinize the words. In fact, I was absolutely anti-swearing until I was in seventh grade.
I can speak as a child that was exposed to such "indiscretions" and look: I've turned out for none the worse, and more tolerant of the world around me.
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Exactly, and last time I checked, there were more individuals above 18 in this country than there were minors. I don't see why parents of these people, and other individuals easily offended, can't just toughen up and modify their lives.
The greater need for society to be able to coexist peacefully should outweigh one person's need to hear or see violence.
Yet it must be said that governments that highly censored things, such as Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, were, below the surface, anything but peaceful.
They used to have Public Decency laws, where guidelines were created to keep things at a happy medium, but OH NO people had to prove how EDGY and sophisticated they were by debasing it. They had to prove what REBELS they were for ratings, and now everything's fallen to shit.
That is your personal opinion; there is room for others'.
The furor over being subjected to Janet Jackson's boobage during a family football game is proof in the pudding. You've already got blood and violence during football- you need boobs too? Non-cheerleader boobs I mean. Boobs are great, don't get me wrong, I like them, I keep a couple as pets, but that doesn't mean I want to SEE them when I'm munching cheetos with my kid, yknow?
Don't be watching "blood and violence" with your kid in the first place, first of all.
Second of all, the "boob" issue highlights another issue that needs to be addressed: what is offensive to some is not ofensive to others. I for one, absolutely could not care if my younger cousins (since I don't have a child) saw a breast on TV. As far as I'm concerned, it's a part of the human body. And how exactly would children know what they're seeing is absolutely offensive and terrible? I grew up listening to my dad regularly play songs with the words "Shit," "Damn," and "Hell" in them, and I didn't even stop to scrutinize the words. In fact, I was absolutely anti-swearing until I was in seventh grade.
I can speak as a child that was exposed to such "indiscretions" and look: I've turned out for none the worse, and more tolerant of the world around me.
Lisa//Slytherin