The GOP War on Books

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(06-07-2024, 12:08 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: So you're also against the motion picture rating system, FCC guidelines, not allow children to hold driver licenses until the age of 16, not allowing them to purchase and consume nicotine, alcohol, pornography, guns etc. until an appropriately deemed age of consent is reached, as well?

And if you're not against any or all of those other regulations upon our minor children, why pick this as the bridge too far?

I'm against censorship.  Not sure what driving and smoking and drinking have to do with it.  

For example how many of you were sneakily watching "skinamax" and reading your dad's playboys underage?  All this is, and other attempts like it, is try and show how people "care" while ignoring what happens in the real world.  And (before it comes up), yes, the same goes for a lot gun laws that duplicate what is already on the books, or want to arm teachers, or whatever "caring" law either side proposes to try and deter gun violence.

No, I don't like the rating system for movies.  Never did.  All it is is one group saying THEIR morals and values are more important that everyone else.  Like in countries where women are forced to cover up their bodies so they don't "tempt" the men.  Men can't control themselves so they control the women.  

I might buy into it if these self-serving people didn't so often get exposed for all the things they do in their private lives while pushing their views on the rest of us.

FTR, movies are self-regulated too, although with some "rules" like how many times you can say the "F" word...because two is ok for a 13 year old but three is a "bridge too far".