I agree that we should do away with the FCC. I don't think we should censor ourselves, even around little kids. We should still be gentle with kids, but we shouldn't refrain from swearing around them, or protect them from violence on T.V. and in the movies. Kids are smarter than that, and trying to protect them from things only leads to more curiosity on their part. The only reason we try to be so sweety-weety with our kids in this society is so the parents can vicariously live through them with that stage of life when they were sweet and innocent, and things weren't so uncertain. Then, once they're teens, we basically look at them like they're garbage.
As far as the anti-discrimination laws, that's a tough one. You make a good point, Unfan. The government trying to force us what to think is like something out of Orwell's 1984, and is not good. However, when that law is not enforced, and an african-american is denied work over and over and over again, I can imagine them feeling a bit outraged, and I can't very easily say, 'well, that's life,' deal with it,' because racism is stupid. Maybe the government should censor how we treat people, if people are too g*ddamn ignorant to realize that racism and prejudice is only hatred of an individual's self and inability to grow, radiated outward. Racism still exists today, and it pains me to see that people are unable to look deeper, and look inside themselves for the seeds of their hate.
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