I love it when anybody starts talking about the 'moral degradation' of a society, because you know that person believes him or herself to be morally above those being criticized.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...
Or something like that, anyway.:)
A society's morals are what we make of them. What's less morally acceptable - a teenage kid watching the South Park movie, or a multi-national corporation paying a teenage kid two dollars a day in a Third World country to make crappy shoes? Who's worse off in that scenario, hmm?
What's a bigger problem, kids having access to so-called 'smut', or kids having to deal with poverty? Can kids fill their stomachs with morals?
Katz didn't say that pornography and smut are OK for kids; he merely believes that such decisions are up to the parents and children to discuss and decide. While I may not agree with his actions in the theater, he was right in respecting the intelligence of the kids he escorted.
- Why is it that the media insists on focusing on 'statistical aberrations' like the Littleton massacre, and conveniently ignores all the gun-related deaths happening in the slums and ghettos of North America? I guess it's an easier story to deal with, because it's an isolated incident; if Dateline:NBC wanted to do a story on how black males have a life expectancy that's nearly half as long as white males, they might actually have to do some research.
- You don't see a teen member of a minority in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood walk into their school and shoot seventeen people. Why not? Because that teen has to deal with things like where their next meal is coming from, and whether or not they'll be fast enough to dodge the next drive-by. Forget peer pressure, being an outsider, enduring ridicule. How about survival? - It's the millennium, people! Wacky things are bound to happen! Look at the past six or seven years and tell me I'm wrong. Here's a quick list: OJ, the Bobbitts, Waco, Zippergate, Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center, Jeffrey Dahmer, and let's not forget that Benigni guy. Don't think we've seen it all, either, because we're just getting started.
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I love it when anybody starts talking about the 'moral degradation' of a society, because you know that person believes him or herself to be morally above those being criticized.
:)
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...
Or something like that, anyway.
A society's morals are what we make of them. What's less morally acceptable - a teenage kid watching the South Park movie, or a multi-national corporation paying a teenage kid two dollars a day in a Third World country to make crappy shoes? Who's worse off in that scenario, hmm?
What's a bigger problem, kids having access to so-called 'smut', or kids having to deal with poverty? Can kids fill their stomachs with morals?
Katz didn't say that pornography and smut are OK for kids; he merely believes that such decisions are up to the parents and children to discuss and decide. While I may not agree with his actions in the theater, he was right in respecting the intelligence of the kids he escorted.
- Why is it that the media insists on focusing on 'statistical aberrations' like the Littleton massacre, and conveniently ignores all the gun-related deaths happening in the slums and ghettos of North America? I guess it's an easier story to deal with, because it's an isolated incident; if Dateline:NBC wanted to do a story on how black males have a life expectancy that's nearly half as long as white males, they might actually have to do some research.
- You don't see a teen member of a minority in a poverty-stricken neighbourhood walk into their school and shoot seventeen people. Why not? Because that teen has to deal with things like where their next meal is coming from, and whether or not they'll be fast enough to dodge the next drive-by. Forget peer pressure, being an outsider, enduring ridicule. How about survival?
- It's the millennium, people! Wacky things are bound to happen! Look at the past six or seven years and tell me I'm wrong. Here's a quick list: OJ, the Bobbitts, Waco, Zippergate, Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center, Jeffrey Dahmer, and let's not forget that Benigni guy. Don't think we've seen it all, either, because we're just getting started.