Good Grief!

[Calhoun07]

I watched Xtro when I was a kid, that gruesome child birth scene and all, and I turned out to be a well adjusted, down to earth kinda guy! There are things that may be "disturbing" when you see them on TV, but I think it has more to do with how a child is raised that will determine how they will react to such disturbing images. And I don't think that because something is disturbing necessariliy means that we have to avoid it. There are times that being confronted with something "disturbing" makes us form a more well balanced world view. I think that children who are cloistered and do not get to experience live, disturbing and good, will turn out to be unbalanced individuals who have an unrealistic world view, and those kids will ultimately have more problems than kids who were exposed to certain negative things.

I am not advocating letting kids watch whatever they want, but I just am saying that I think people over react....way over react, to quite a bit more than deserves to be. It's all about balance. I am sure that somebody who watched nothing but violence and gore and sadistic things would be just as unbalanced as the cloistered individual who watched G and PG rated movies only, and then only if they had nothing objectionable in them. Both states of mind are unhealthy.

The bru-ha-ha over ROTJ (and many, many other TV shows today and other forms of mass media) can be viewed as an unhealthy thing for out nation. Rather than leaving it up to parents to be responsible in giving their children a balanced diet of influences and rather than leaving it up to the parents to decide whether or not something is appropriate for their child, the people who cut these programs up are saying they are the ones who need to legislate that, and that is something I am strongly opposed to.

The bottom line is that too much of something is a bad thing. Everybody needs some kind of balance in their lives.

[Calhoun07]

This was supposed to be a reply to the "THINKING ABOUT ROTJ" thread!

[Peace Keeper]

It's like that morman girl form the Real World. She acts like she's seven years old.

[I.R Joey]

Sometimes I don't think the bad guy is the networks, somethimes I think its the people pressuring them. Seriously, would you believe that the DBZ is watched by kids is Japan, not even given a second look. Does that mean their are a bunch of kids in Japan beating one another senseless? No it doesn't. Now I understand censorship, and in some cases I even suppourt it. But I look at the ROTJ edits and I'm like.

"Dang why did they cut that."

And what's with all the worrys about kids being scared of villans today. Most 7-10 year olds I see would love these kind of bad villans. And besides they should be able to tell that the Joker is evil. Which brings us to the next point,

It is up to the parents to instill values like right and wrong into their kids. The Media is already doing it and I believe that is why we have many of the problems that we have in society today.

[James Harvey]

My seven year old nephew watched it and loved it. He watches the unedited version quite a bit, and can even recidte the warnings. The old saying is true - "It takes one person to ruin anything" - and I think that sticks here. My nephew would point out that guns are bad, killing is bad, etc, but some kids are really impressionable and really stupid. I think a kid can handle this, I see no problem. Sure it should be rated PG for 'animated violence' but it shouldn't have a warning sticker. Why? Becuase I've seen more violence in 'G' rated flicks and parents know what they are getting into with a 'Pg' flick.