Zep, I respect and possibly admire yours and T's steadfast refusal to not have a television in the house. Parents taking the initiative to make life better and less dangerous for their children is a daunting task to say the least. My first thought was; Well then, how do you watch porn? Just kidding.zepboy wrote:
We don't have TV in our home for the very reason you pointed out. There is way too much filth going out on the air; not just violence, but also sex, various forms of deviance, rebellion, disrespect, idiocy, and the list goes on (as infinitum, ad nauseam).
Seriously though, I just zipped through 111 channels on cable and didn't see one naked tit, not one act of penetration! Now, I did see deviance, rebellion, disrespect, violence (on CNN - we were shooting the hell out of Iraqis and they were blowing us up with IEDs), Idiocy (Bush on MSNBC).
But some things need rebelling against. Some people do not deserve our respect. Deviance? Everybody got to deviate from the norm. And seeing displays of idiocy helps to let one understand what is not.
However, just one wayward click of the mouse takes me to sites where every one of the horrors you list are all on the same page.
What's my point? I have none really. I just enjoy the interlocutor of ideas between folks with fundamental differences, all plopped cheek-by-jar on this planet. The most we can hope for is mutual understanding, tolerance and respect. I call it The Brotherhood Of Creation.
As to gun control; I'll probably leave that topic to those that feel strongly about it one way or another...plus I don't want to get shot!