SPEW!! DEBATE!!

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The monthly SPEW debate is here! Wanna know whats going on? Look under the cut!!


Imagne going to the record store, and blaring from the loud speakers is an artist like Eminem. You have your two young children with you. Should they have to listen to that kind of music, even if you think that it is immoral?
The Topic of the debate is a popular one. Should Music/Movies/Magazine/Video Games/Etc. be censored? Should the government be able to say, "No You cannot put that on your album" or "That is too vulgur for our youth to see on the big screen!"
What I Want I want you to debate over this issue. Gryffindor//Slytherin will be arguing that the government SHOULD NOT be able to censor the media. Ravenclaw//Hufflepuff will be arguing that the government SHOULD be able to censor the media.
Rules
-Only qualifing comments count! They must be signed, be at least 3 sentences, stay on topic, and stay on your assigned side.
-Keep it civil. If you don't agree with what someone says, let it slide off your back, and don't start an argument. You will not be allowed to participate in the contest for SPEW.
-Have fun! Thats what I want most of all

The Break Down
-10 points for first comment.
-5 points for each additional comment.
Deadline
-The debate will end THURSDAY, Mar. 2nd, at 8 P.M. EST!

Thank you!



DEBATE OVER! Sorry, I had to end it a little early, but I have a paper due tomorrow, and it will take me the rest of the night to finish it.

Comments

[devils-sidekick.livejournal.com]

The government should censor media

Last night I was walking to my weekly therepy session, I decided to get a drink. Went to the corner deli/candy store for it,while I was waiting for my turn to pay, I noticed there were these very graphic pictures of sexual acts. Located right on the top self over the magazines for all to see. Trust me I made a complaint about it. The owner quickly told one of his workers to change the display.

Come on, your in an area where there are a lot of kids, your right across form a park, in a semi religious area, why would you display movies like that? Hide them, like you do with the "dirty" magazines, for heavens sake. I don't want to see the pictures, not even the titles, I am not really sure which was worse the pictures or the film titles. I can handle, "Debbie does Dallas", but when the title has sexual tems and stuff, that dosen't cut it.

Deborah/Hufflepuff

[weirdointhecorn.livejournal.com]

While I see your point that you did not want to view things like that, it would be idiosyncratic for the government to monitor those types of things. In fact, you did exactly what I feel is the solution: monitor it yourself, and don't get the government involved. Questionable material will not survive in a community that doesn't want it, so there should be no problems if everybody would speak up when they find something offensive.

As for the government, that is on a national level and inappropriate for a select community (or neighborhood, or group of people) to control what everyone else sees. If everybody in the nation complained about a specific poster, or CD, or magazine, sure it'd be right to ban it. But not in any other circumstance besides a clear majority is this right to do.

As having a certain stance on things, the deli/candy store incident proves that you have very much a power to change things in your neighborhood. I encourage you to do so. But please do not force it on me and the rest of the country.

Lisa//Slytherin

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you just proved my point for me. You complained -- they changed. That's all it takes. If you don't want explicit pictures seen in your neightborhood, speak out, and that's that. Explicit material doesn't go where it's not welcome, same as any other product. But because you don't want it, that doesn't mean that others shouldn't be able to have it. It harms no one, no one who doesn't want to see it is forced to pick it up and leaf through, and it's simplicity in itself to avoid. Therefore it shouldn't be censored.

Moon Faery//Slytherin