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Maybe certain people shouldn't be allowed to watch any TV
Yes, I Have a Point
Angelo Lanham
Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: Opinion
Besides that, I played a disproportionate amount of "Mortal Kombat" through my middle-school years, and not once did I decapitate, yank a spinal cord out of or set fire to any of my classmates.
A recent porn forum at SJSU described pornography as an evil force that seeks to ruin people's lives by creating within said people a sudden, insatiable urge to either have ridiculous amounts of sex or at least shave their pubic hair.
Again, though, this doesn't mesh because I have trouble believing that anyone who watches the sordid plots contained within pornography should really think that pizza girls really do strip down and do the nasty when they deliver.
It's fairly obvious, to me, at least, that when people snap after a round of "Grand Theft Auto" and a midnight viewing of "The Naughty Nurses" that it has more to do with the fact that the person in question is not playing with a full deck than with his or her media choices.
But people continue to attempt to ban types of music, video games and pornography because it gives our children these nasty ideas they wouldn't have come across on their own.
The great part about this robbery story is that I simply can't imagine a group of church ladies sitting around a table for tea saying, "Well, that 'Ocean's Eleven' movie is a danger, and I knew it all along. That Matt Damon is destroying our youth, am I right, ladies?"
If they had been playing "Halo" before the robbery, I'm sure that there would be some sort of backlash from the tea ladies, as there would be if they had watched "Natural Born Killers."
But they watched "Ocean's Eleven." No one is going to ban "Ocean's Eleven."
Right?
A recent porn forum at SJSU described pornography as an evil force that seeks to ruin people's lives by creating within said people a sudden, insatiable urge to either have ridiculous amounts of sex or at least shave their pubic hair.
Again, though, this doesn't mesh because I have trouble believing that anyone who watches the sordid plots contained within pornography should really think that pizza girls really do strip down and do the nasty when they deliver.
It's fairly obvious, to me, at least, that when people snap after a round of "Grand Theft Auto" and a midnight viewing of "The Naughty Nurses" that it has more to do with the fact that the person in question is not playing with a full deck than with his or her media choices.
But people continue to attempt to ban types of music, video games and pornography because it gives our children these nasty ideas they wouldn't have come across on their own.
The great part about this robbery story is that I simply can't imagine a group of church ladies sitting around a table for tea saying, "Well, that 'Ocean's Eleven' movie is a danger, and I knew it all along. That Matt Damon is destroying our youth, am I right, ladies?"
If they had been playing "Halo" before the robbery, I'm sure that there would be some sort of backlash from the tea ladies, as there would be if they had watched "Natural Born Killers."
But they watched "Ocean's Eleven." No one is going to ban "Ocean's Eleven."
Right?
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mayra
posted 11/20/08 @ 1:05 PM PST
I THINK THAT YOU SHOULDNT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE NEWS PAPERS...IF YOU IN FACT DID YOUR RESEARCH CORRECTLY YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE AN OPINION WITH OUT KNOWING ALL THE FACTS. (Continued…)
Aracely
posted 11/20/08 @ 3:01 PM PST
YEAH I AGREE WITH MAYRA GET IT STRAIGHT AND THEN WRITE AN ARTICLE. I'M ISSUING AN AWARD "IDIOT OF THE YEAR AWARD" AND IT GOES TO ANGELO LANHAM!!!!! LMAO!!!
Greg
posted 11/21/08 @ 1:34 PM PST
Maybe certain people shouldn't write crappy articles in the newspaper. Yes, Angelo, that applies to you.
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