I, personally, disagree with sensorship. I agree that parents have the
right, and the responsibility, to do their best to instill values in their
children. However, once a person is an adult, any attempt for one group to
tell another others what they can and cannot read is not acceptable.
Besides, who makes the decisions? What if, though you agree with their
decisions currently, they eventually start sensoring ideas which you hold
dear? For example, what if it is decided that because the bible has many
descriptions of sex and violence, it is band?
Please, please, please remember that one of our strengths is that we value
the free exchange of ideas.
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patti Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:23 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] "Adult" books
I know I will be in the minority on this, but why is it we need to have
Adult ratings for books and/or movies? Because our society thinks it is
just fine to spew out foul language, authors think there is nothing wrong
with describing love scenes in the most explicit detail. Why? Two things
I
heard when I was younger have never left me. One was from my history
teacher in the 8th grade. He said if a person has to swear, that means
they
have a very limited vocabulary. Amen. And, as a young adult I went to
hear
Paul Harvey speak and he asked why do we guard our children from such
things, bad language, violence, explicit sex, yet we think it is okay as
adults to digest all this? Why is it okay? I guess I wish for an
idealistic existence which will never happen, but I sure don't appreciate
any of that in my life, I will not read books that have this type of
content
in them, nor will I watch a movie with such a rating that I know it is
full
of what I know will be offensive. Yes, it's a free country, I do know
that
but I just don't know why it has to be deemed acceptable that we hear and
see unnecessary stuff like this; there has to be other ways to express
ourselves. Okay, I'll hush now. Just had to express my opinion. Back
under my desk I go.
Patti
You can't bounce the bounce if you can't pronounce the bounce. --From The
Tigger Movie
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