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What get's me is what some parents let their kids watch. I have a friend, and he's one of the best friends I have, but the other night after watching the Husker game, his 5 year old kid wanted to watch Saw...now, the crap that is in Saw is almost too much for me to handle, and the movie is rated R, so I had to sit there and scratch my head wondering why in the hell he would ever let his kid watch that kind of stuff. 
I guess I don't get the fascination with movies like Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc., they're not scary...their only purpose is to pack as much gory carnage as is possible into about 1.5 hours of viewing. Isn't 'art' (a term used loosely in this instance) supposed to imitate life? Maybe I'm not reading enough news, but if there was a guy with a robotic clown forcing people to murder others at the risk of getting their jaw ripped off...I'm pretty dang sure we'd know about it.
Obviously there's a lot of sick crap going on in the world, I'm not going to blame it on movies or video games or music. People gravitate towards the things that interest them, so if death interests a person, they will gravitate towards things that involve death...their problem comes not from those things they take interest in, their problem is already deep seated.
The world's problems scare me, but not enough to deprive myself and my wife of children. It's scary out there, and you can't always be there for them, so you do what you can to prepare them for the real world, and then you let them go. About the only thing you can do is try to raise them in a place that is away from the world's ills...of course you can't escape them completely, but you can at least put some distance between them and you.
I guess I don't get the fascination with movies like Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc., they're not scary...their only purpose is to pack as much gory carnage as is possible into about 1.5 hours of viewing. Isn't 'art' (a term used loosely in this instance) supposed to imitate life? Maybe I'm not reading enough news, but if there was a guy with a robotic clown forcing people to murder others at the risk of getting their jaw ripped off...I'm pretty dang sure we'd know about it.
Obviously there's a lot of sick crap going on in the world, I'm not going to blame it on movies or video games or music. People gravitate towards the things that interest them, so if death interests a person, they will gravitate towards things that involve death...their problem comes not from those things they take interest in, their problem is already deep seated.
The world's problems scare me, but not enough to deprive myself and my wife of children. It's scary out there, and you can't always be there for them, so you do what you can to prepare them for the real world, and then you let them go. About the only thing you can do is try to raise them in a place that is away from the world's ills...of course you can't escape them completely, but you can at least put some distance between them and you.
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