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- From: robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Canadian solutions (was Re: Virginie's TV violence petition)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.200320.950@mdivax1.uucp>
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- Reply-To: robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson)
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:03:50 GMT
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- Socrates (kpicott@alias.com) wrote:
- >In <1992Nov20.174736.2104@mdivax1.uucp> robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson) writes:
- >
- >>I would agree with Denis, and I don't see a problem with restricting
- >>violent TV shows to certain hours (e.g. after 10pm). I consider it quite
- >>ludicrous that nudity on TV is a no-no, while murder is A-OK.
- >
- >Just out of curiousity; given that you consider this ludicrous, why do you
- >not support relaxing the restrictions on nudity, rather than tightening the
- >restrictions on violence? I'll even grant the necessity of adding some sort
- >of warning to the beginning of all TV shows that used to fail under the
- >restrictions.
-
- Where's the petition? North American TV is bizarre in its attitude to
- nudity and I would happily support measures to change the current
- situation. I am more concerned about violence than sex because the former
- has the potential to severely disrupt my life if it is aimed at me,
- whereas the latter, well no need to go into details .....
-
- >Is this a typical Canadian attitude? If there is a problem we demand the
- >government-who-protects-us-all step in and hide it from us?
-
- I do not agree that limiting violence to, say, after 10pm is hiding the
- problem. A relevant analogy would be movies whose rating requires
- accompanyment by an adult.
-
- BTW, I consider myself to be quite individualist leaning, but when it
- comes to non-adults, which is really what we are talking about here, I do
- think that somewhat different standards can be applied.
-
- >If so, is this
- >attitude the cause of our current economic problems, or the reason that it
- >rates as such a great country to live in?
-
- Good question. I suspect that it depends on the issue. So perhaps the
- answer is yes & yes.
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- Jim Robinson
- robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
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