So then brickboo, lead by example and get rid of your TV. That is what my parents did. They felt that there were a hundred and one better, more educational or appropriate things for me to do than sit and watch TV.

They did not sit there and say, heck I love my tv so everyone else better moderate themselves into what I think is acceptable.

That kind of thinking is self serving and places the responsibility on other people rather than accepting it as your own.

However much I may have hated it at the time I have to respect the fact that my parents were taking responsibility for the way their kids were raised. They did not need the state to do it for them. They did not require anyone else to conform to their way of thinking or to their 'morality'. They just got on with it. Rightly or wrongly they decided what we were and were not exposed to.

What is right for me is most definately not right for you and that is just me and you..... add everyone else into the equation and there would be nothing but a blank screen to watch once we had all chipped away at offending programes. That is the problem if we go down the route of censorship because who is to say your morality is any better than mine or indeed that mine is any better than yours. I don't doubt for a second that you feel you are right, and probably with a passion. I do not agree with a lot of what you say but I will defend your right to say it. Just because I do not agree with you does not make it wrong......but that works both ways.

You don't like to watch "out of the closet" stuff on tv. That is your right. You don't like profanity on tv, cool...you should not be subjected to something that offends you. Ultimately you have total control over what you allow into your home.

Personally I hate to see women parading themselves in bikinis in a wrestling ring. However I don't demand legislation to stop it. I could bang on about how this practice is demeaning to women, reinforcing unnatainable body goals for young girls etc etc. But none of that would be the reason for me not wanting to see it. I just use those 'acceptable' and 'politically correct' arguments to dress up the fact that I don't want to see it on tv. Some folk may like it. If that is their bag who am I to rain on their parade? I turn off the box. Simple. That way everyone is happy.

Censorship is nothing more than people forcing their view of what is right onto other people simply because they 'know' it to be right and have the arrogance to assume that others cannot make the decision for themselves. Blaming it on protecting the kids reeks of an innability to find a more cohesive argument for their moral impositions.

Tony

[This message has been edited by Tony W (edited 01-16-2004).]