Re: Tell me whats wrong with this

At 05:34 PM 2/8/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>avatar@mindspring.com writes:
> > I have a six year old boy I am trying to raise and it is hard
> > enough to teach him respect and values...
>
>What does your six-year-old have to do with my TV?
>
> >         Tell me why parents should not be able to censor their OWN
> > television so that they may raise their children the way THEY see
> > fit
>
>But what about *my* TV?  Why should I be forced to pay for something I
>don't want just because you want it for yourself?  [ Why does this
>seem so obvious? 

You probably had no problem with seat belts being manditory eqiupment ,
because they 
protected YOU and the people YOU cared about. 
You probably had no problem with manditory airbags, public building smoke
alarms, unleaded
fuel, restaurant health codes,etc....Because they protected you and or
people you care about,
even though they cost YOU more money.
>
> > All I'm saying is it's tough to raise a child these days without the added
> > distortion of modern programing ...
>
>"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
>
> > ... and parents need not be denied any tool that can help them
> > achieve success. 
>
>Oh, OK then.  Parents should be given access to incendiary equipment
>as a tool to destroy the studios that produce offensive material.
>
It's obvious that you watch a lot television your an excellent sensationalist.
Besides, we both no that the cost of the chip is insignificant. This device
hurts no one!
Charles Donald Smith Jr.

||The government  is my shepherd I need not work. It alloweth me to lie
 down on a good job. It leadeth me beside stilled factories. It destroyeth
 my initiative. It leadeth me in the path of a parasite for politics sake. YEA,
 though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficet spending I shall
 fear no evil, for the government is with me. It prepareth an economic utopia
 for me by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren. It filleth my head
 with false security. My inefficiency runeth over. Surely, the government 
should care for me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in a fools paradise
forever.................AMEN!   || nuke'm if ya got'em||

avatar@mindspring.com writes:
 > > >         Tell me why parents should not be able to censor their OWN
 > > > television so that they may raise their children the way THEY see
 > > > fit
 > >
 > >But what about *my* TV?  Why should I be forced to pay for something I
 > >don't want just because you want it for yourself?  [ Why does this
 > >seem so obvious? 
 > 
 > You probably had no problem with seat belts being manditory eqiupment ,
 > because they  protected YOU and the people YOU cared about. 

Incorrect.  I do have a problem with that.

 > You probably had no problem with manditory airbags, public building smoke
 > alarms, unleaded fuel, restaurant health codes,etc....Because they
 > protected you and or people you care about, even though they cost
 > YOU more money. 

I'm trying to see what this has to do with a mandatory chip in my
TV...  SOmehow the link between that and a smoke alarm seems tenuous
at best.

The intent of making the V chip (what does "V" stand for anyway?
"Violence?" Eerily Orwellian if so...) mandatory seems to be that it's
necessary to "protect" the people who want to "protect" their children
but are too stupid to seek out and purchase a TV equipped with an
optional filtering device.   "Oh darn; I want to protect my children
from all this horrible damaging programming, but I bought the wrong
kind of TV!  If only the government had made it impossible for me to
do so!"

 > Besides, we both no that the cost of the chip is
 > insignificant. This device hurts no one!
 > Charles Donald Smith Jr.
 > 
 > ||The government  is my shepherd I need not work. It alloweth me to lie
 >  down on a good job. It leadeth me beside stilled factories. It
 >  destroyeth  my initiative...

Could you please change your signature block?  My hypocrisy meter is
pegged. 

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