Many of those 'lazy and horrible' parents are out lobbying for censorship of public ariways.
We all want to pound on parents because they can't raise their children. Yet we want to fill the airways with profanity and sexual innuendo. The lifestyles presented on a typical tv program rarely correspond to those many parents would support. We have billboards advertising strip clubs and an Internet with no holds barred (don't EVEN bring up those lame parental control packages).
None of this stuff offends me personally, but I do believe in the idea of community standards. Children are not raised in a home they cannot leave where the tvs are unplugged and radios are forbidden. Yet folks seem to be arguing that the full time job of the parent should be to review with their children the myriad of information they encounter each day and help them interpret it.
What is so wrong with the idea that children should be raised in an environment where you at least have to seek out objectionable material rather than have it thrust at you?
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The same question can be asked the other way. If there is no backlash to Janet Jackson's ugly breast (my only personal objection to that particular sight) where does that stop?
Public standards for decendy have been a swinging pendulum since the dawn of recorded history. It has swung to the left a bit to far for the taste of many, and I for one welcome the swing back to the right - just as I will shudder to watch it swing too far in that direction (which it surely will - and for some already has).
We all want to pound on parents because they can't raise their children. Yet we want to fill the airways with profanity and sexual innuendo. The lifestyles presented on a typical tv program rarely correspond to those many parents would support. We have billboards advertising strip clubs and an Internet with no holds barred (don't EVEN bring up those lame parental control packages).
None of this stuff offends me personally, but I do believe in the idea of community standards. Children are not raised in a home they cannot leave where the tvs are unplugged and radios are forbidden. Yet folks seem to be arguing that the full time job of the parent should be to review with their children the myriad of information they encounter each day and help them interpret it.
What is so wrong with the idea that children should be raised in an environment where you at least have to seek out objectionable material rather than have it thrust at you?
Sears asks:
once the ball starts rolling with tighter guidelines and regulations, where's it going to stop?
The same question can be asked the other way. If there is no backlash to Janet Jackson's ugly breast (my only personal objection to that particular sight) where does that stop?
Public standards for decendy have been a swinging pendulum since the dawn of recorded history. It has swung to the left a bit to far for the taste of many, and I for one welcome the swing back to the right - just as I will shudder to watch it swing too far in that direction (which it surely will - and for some already has).
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