So you'd prefer to raise them to think that it's ok to lie, swear, be rude, kill and blow each other up. Because it's ok to watch that on TV, because it makes you feel less uncomfortable. Just don't watch teh pornz.
This is why this country, and continent in general, is turning into a pile of schit. People have their priorities all wrong. We will end up leaving our children a schithole, because the message we convey to them is that violence is ok. Whereas people in more liberal countries, where naked people is not an issue but human rights is, will leave their children a far more peaceful and respectful country.
Mike,
As I mentioned in one of my prior posts, it is well documented that children model their behaviour and form their worldview on what they see around them while growing up. This of course includes lying, swearing, violence etc. as you quite rightly point out.
This thread was focused on porn in the media, and as a result my posts related mostly to that. I do however agree with you that the media often carries content which includes the behaviour you mentioned (sometimes glorifying it).
If you (and by you, I mean society at large) believe that there is too much violence (or pornography or whatever) in the media and that this conveys a message to children which is not acceptable or compatible with your moral views, society needs to address this with the media.
Exactly how one would do this remains a challenge. Added to that, most people are just too busy with everyday challenges. As a result, these important, but not urgent challenges, normally fall by the wayside as one just tries to "survive". As such we leave media to make those decisions for us.
I would hazard a guess that more often than not they (the media) base their decisions on their bottom line and not on what is best for society.
If you think about it, do you want them to be making the decisions at all (whether based on their bottom line or their view of whats best for society)?
There is most likely a lot of heated debating required to come to a somewhat reasonable solution that would be acceptable to the majority and would offend or downright infuriate some.
If the holier than though super religious zealot is happy with the media, then content is too restricted and censored, conversely if the horney goat is masturbating hourly to explicit BDSM on SABC1,2,3 etc. content is probably too explicit and so on...
Now we just need a horney goat and a relegious zealot to use when determining what to screen... any volunteers?
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