There are many things I don't like to look at, hear or take part in. There are many things I find personally offensive. But, I cannot condone censorship of even the things I don't like, because to censor one thing is to open the doors to censor everything. I say this because, "Quis custodiet, ipsos custodes", who is doing the censoring, and how do they determine their criteria. When most people clammer about "government imposed family values", or "laws for saving our children from exposure to evil", aren't they really just pushing their role as parent onto someone else? They already let their children be raised by schools, tv and their church of choice (by which I mean whatever strong personalitied religious emotional manipulator who dictates what/how they should think). Raising a child is a difficult, timeconsuming and labor intensive task. It takes forethought and awareness to raise a child with an openmind. If you give that responsibility to the state or the church what you end up with is a child with an empty mind.
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funny this sounds just like - the corporate world that couldn't believe a little, free, unix based OS could challenge Microsoft. Will they ever learn?
There are many things I don't like to look at, hear or take part in. There are many things I find personally offensive. But, I cannot condone censorship of even the things I don't like, because to censor one thing is to open the doors to censor everything. I say this because, "Quis custodiet, ipsos custodes", who is doing the censoring, and how do they determine their criteria. When most people clammer about "government imposed family values", or "laws for saving our children from exposure to evil", aren't they really just pushing their role as parent onto someone else? They already let their children be raised by schools, tv and their church of choice (by which I mean whatever strong personalitied religious emotional manipulator who dictates what/how they should think). Raising a child is a difficult, timeconsuming and labor intensive task. It takes forethought and awareness to raise a child with an openmind. If you give that responsibility to the state or the church what you end up with is a child with an empty mind.