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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:19 AM:
Wonders Marcus, if showing smoking in movies is so deleterious to the intellectual/social health of children, what of sex, violence, etc?But Marcus fails to understand: Just as the left is chary of instructing youth in the lining of the pockets of large corporations and their shareholders, so it is eager to assure their exposure to the dysfunctions by which the lower classes are to act out in order to a) offend traditionalists and b) demonstrate the need for more governance by the left for teaching "safe" methods for the commission of self-destructive behavior.
As such, the hardline conservatives and hardline leftists are on the same track, both angling for control over society. By the nattering of their extremes, they always seem to give the other just enough ammunition to keep the battle going, which is why the TurkeyBlog, notwithstanding his sympathy to the conservative understanding of some of this, takes a libertarian line when it comes to the application of state power to the problem. Offensive though both be, if the alternative is a government commission on "good tv," then show the smoking, show the screwing and, for God's sake, show such whining parents as you may find on either side how to change the channel if they don't like what their kids are watching.
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