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DrCrowTStarwars
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Random Thoughts
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5-Feb-2015, 8:47 AM

I think I didn't made my point clear.

I didn't say this is always the case but as I understood it the reason people complain about violence being onscreen when sex is not is that they think that it does say something about us that we like the violence. 

What we like is determine by something inside of us or our personality can be changed by what we watch or read.  At least that is what I pick up on when people get morally outraged by violence and say that it should be replaced with sex because sex isn't bad.  I may have misunderstood but the only reason to get mad about the content of a book or film is if you think it either says something about us as a people or you are afraid it will have an impact on the people who read or watch it and change them in some way.

Now under that logic I am just saying that in general then if you think something is anti-woman, anti-black,anti-jew, or ant- whatever. Then find a few people from that group that likes it doesn't disprove the point that the work does have that world view.  All it proves is that a few people in that group either hate themselves or they like the work so much they have overlooked the over all message of the piece.

Again I can't say if that is the case here but I think in general the point still stands.

No if what we watch and read says nothing about who we are on the inside and it doesn't change who we are then I don't see any reason in general to be any more upset by violence then sex since they are both works of fiction.  If Fifty shades of grey doesn't tell us anything thing about the woman who read it and it isn't worth getting upset over then I don't think Dredd or The Lord of the Rings says anything about the people who read or watch them and they are not worth getting upset over either.

Again this is just a general point of logic I was making.

I think in reality no matter how logical and unemotional we claim to be we all have our buttons for things we don't like seeing in movies because we don't approve of them and so we assume the worst about the people who like them.  For some people that is sex, for others it is violence, and in my case it is Micheal Bay.  The point is that it is human nature to see the stuff we like as being okay while seeing the stuff we personally don't like as being garbage that should be banned or get a higher rating from the MPAA.

Again I am not judging anyone I am just trying to make a general point about human nature as I see it, that is all.

Sorry if this upset anyone.