DirrtyNinja said: "fuck censorship."
I'm not necessarily one that believes censorship is a BAD thing. I simply feel that it's a broken thing. We can say that "no, you can't play that violent video game", but then we show news footage of war in our school systems? There's something hypocritical about that to me. I remember being in school and actually starting a petition to disallow history teachers from showing Schindler's List in my school. Why? Because that is no place for it. Graphic nudity is something that is frowned upon in our schools, and yet it's okay to show it when it's starving and dying Jews? Fuck that. Hold to your principles or get rid of them. That's what I say.
Nonetheless, I'm not the kind of person that's going to go show my 7-year-old a movie like Dead/Alive or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Granted, my parents never censored me growing up (and if they ever did, it didn't last long). I believe that kids just need to be taught the difference between right and wrong, fantasy and reality. Unfortunately, many parents are not suited for that today because they fail to differentiate between the two themselves.
All I'm saying is that some parents need to realize that there are things that can be detrimental to the development of their child into a worthwhile citizen and human being. At the same time, a counter-argument can be given about children who were growing up in the middle of the wartime of World War II and whether they grew up to be worthwhile citiziens and humans, so it's very much a double-sided blade.
On the subject of language, I don't try to cuss around kids because it's just flat-out improper. Again, my parents cussed in front of me, but they also made sure that I understood that it was all slang and not proper speech for polite society. I understand that, and it's very much a switch that I can flip on and off. I still feel that same way. Cussing is improper language, but when you aren't in "proper society", then it's not that big of a damn deal personally.
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