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To: sandintoes who wrote (72)	6/16/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: Jeffery Lakeshire	Respond to of 769670

I'm not assuming that people on the whole care. I don't assume people on the whole are highly intelligent, but I don't think that they are as dumb as they appear, either. What is often regarded as the population's stupidity, IMO, is actually foolishness, which is worse than stupidity from a moralist's point of view. The ones that choose to allow the media to rule their opinions are primarily at fault, not the media. Even a borderline retarded person has the ultimate authority in what to believe. Don't get me wrong, I believe the media is liberally biased and corrupt, but it is the viewer's responsibility to agree or disagree, to do what's fundamentally right or wrong, if they know the difference. To say that the media is responsible for peoples decline in morals, is as inaccurate as saying that gun dealers are responsible for shooting deaths. Blaming the media takes blame off of the guilty viewer. This firm stance I have is a result of conclusion, not emotion. Included in this is my observance that even the lack of family values is not the CAUSE of society's problems. It is, however, the strongest influence. I view that lack of good family values is a far more dangerous INFLUENCE than the corrupted media. For me it is harder to have sympathy for the person that committed a murder(for example) and then says, "I saw it happen in the media", than the person who committed the same crime and then says, "My parents have been killing people for as long as I can remember. They said that killing them was a way of putting them out of their misery". Still, on the whole, the ultimate blame for these criminal acts rests on the criminals, and not the media or their parents. They have a choice. They are PRIMARILY at fault, though not necessarily entirely at fault. The only possible exception to this is the case involving one that truly cannot distinguish right from wrong. EX: insanity I am sure that the majority of the human species has the ability to distinguish the most basic human rights and wrongs, though. It's only natural. Jeff