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I'm confused...
Feb. 14th, 2008 07:08 pmIt seems that in a scene in the movie "Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus weren't wearing seatbelts.
This is terrible, you see, because movie and TV shows "influence how children and adults acted in daily life." It's the same reason characters are not suppose to smoke on TV and in movies. See -- people watching it will start smoking. It's the same logic that leads people to say that the show "24" needs to be seriously overhauled because, what with all the torture on the show, people will just start believing that torture is the way to go!
On the other hand, first person shooters? The players know better than to imitate that! Characters that lie, cheat, steal and harm other people? Those are fine! No one will believe they should act like that. People that sleep around? Everyone will have sex no matter what the movies show -- in fact, not having the character have sex will just make everyone have it more! Underage drinking? That's just the way life is, get used to it.
Dictating what should is should not be in entertainment is censorship. Besides everyone knows that people don't do things just because they saw them on TV or in the movies!
Unless it's smoking or torturing terrorists or not wearing seatbelts... THAT people will do.
Do you think they have a score card that explains what people are and are not too stupid/gullible to ignore when they see it on TV?
This is terrible, you see, because movie and TV shows "influence how children and adults acted in daily life." It's the same reason characters are not suppose to smoke on TV and in movies. See -- people watching it will start smoking. It's the same logic that leads people to say that the show "24" needs to be seriously overhauled because, what with all the torture on the show, people will just start believing that torture is the way to go!
On the other hand, first person shooters? The players know better than to imitate that! Characters that lie, cheat, steal and harm other people? Those are fine! No one will believe they should act like that. People that sleep around? Everyone will have sex no matter what the movies show -- in fact, not having the character have sex will just make everyone have it more! Underage drinking? That's just the way life is, get used to it.
Dictating what should is should not be in entertainment is censorship. Besides everyone knows that people don't do things just because they saw them on TV or in the movies!
Unless it's smoking or torturing terrorists or not wearing seatbelts... THAT people will do.
Do you think they have a score card that explains what people are and are not too stupid/gullible to ignore when they see it on TV?
