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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Posts: 316
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Completely agree with waves. Commercial films are meant for entertainment. Entertaining is their aim and is what sustains them.
Toy guns are also meant to be only toys. Yet there is a school of thought that says that it sneakily desensitizes children about gun violence. But are the manufacturers interested in this perspective? No, because that is where their living is.
Not many parents were concerned before - a plastic gun is a plastic gun - but now I see more and more anxiety, often to the point of not giving the child a toy gun that has come as a gift. And I am not referring to my own group of friends but to a large number of adoptive parents of different age groups and life choices who I monitor in my capacity as adoption counsellor.
Same with violent video games.
And there are others.
I've needed to be particularly careful ever since my daughter was born and I can not say I have always been successful. The temptations of shinning lights, flashing colour and the adrenaline of competition always triumph, specially in the years when hormones are raging.
I find it difficult to be objective about concepts promoted by 'entertainment' when it has the ability to insidiously undermine sensitivities to the plight of weaker life.
In the end of course individual view point is what matters - as a line in something I saw on TV - one is victim to a thought process that makes sleep easier.
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My blog:
I started to write so I could keep a track on my thoughts. This particular Lupus flare has turned my life on its head. Although I am pretty content with this enforced solitude, I have a constant dialogue going on within myself. So I thought I'd write it all down.
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I hope you enjoy reading it when you can.
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