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To: coug who wrote (47)	2/4/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Cush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 75

Coug: Here's a subject that concerns me. Ethics and violence on TV. I know that this could be a wide topic but I'll focus on my concern which is the quantity and graphic nature of violence directed at women that is portrayed daily on television. If my memory serves me right, the Jesuits had a saying, "Give me a child until he's ten and I'll have him for life." How can a society with any ethical fibre allow the constant, pervasive influence on children of watching hours of television in which violence against women is used as a stimulating aspect of the story line? Having grown up in the sixties, the idea of any form of censorship was something I objected to. Like a lot of other things, as I've grown older, I see some issues in a different light. No reasonable person would argue that cigarettes aren't linked to cancer. I can't see how any reasonable person could argue that children watching hours of violence directed at women are not being conditioned to accept and possibly commit acts of violence against women. I heard on CNN today that the sale of v-chips with which parents can control the amount of violence and sex their children are exposed to has not caught on. People don't care. They should. It is an ethical lapse for society to continue to allow this sort of indoctrination. Cush