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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (49607)	6/8/2002 12:22:15 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm not into imposing my moral standards on other people. Letting kids watch the kind of porn you describe is not a choice I would make for my children. But if other parents choose to allow their children to watch it, I wouldn't automatically condemn them for it as being terrible parents. The most I would do would be to engage them in a discussion of why they thought this was appropriate for their children. But as to automatically condemning the parent without trying to understand their point of view? That's not my style. It could be, for example, that they know their children are going to run across this stuff at some point, and feel that letting them watch it with parental approval will immunize it and take away the secretive, furtive elements of it which make it seem more appealing to young people -- it's less fun doing something your parents approve of than sneaking around getting away with something they don't. They could argue it's like getting immunity shots -- you give your child an injection of a disease to get a mild case of it in order to prevent them from getting serious case of it later -- deliberately making your child sick with the intent of making him better to ward off serious illness. It's not an argument I happen to agree with when it comes to porn, but nor is it one I would deny a parent the right to make for their child. Same thing, for example, with hunting. I don't hunt. Never have, never will. In this society, I disapprove of it. I didn't teach my children to hunt or use guns. But I have clients who hunt, and one who takes his boys out of school for a week each fall to go on a hunting trip for the opening of deer season. I don't approve of taking kids out of school for vacations, and I don't approve of taking boys still in elementary school hunting, but neither do I chastize the parent for making that decision. Not my job. Not my right.