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@Micki Chiba: I agree with that whole heatedly. Cr*p like Uncle Grandpa and the gross-out humor lowered the quality of entertainment and whole generations of children have suffered developmentally because of it.
I was lucky enough to have parents who didn't use the television as a babysitter, so they monitored what I watched and wouldn't let me watch things that were morally corrupt, disgusting in behavior or art, and empty of story, but I know that most people just view cartoons as all the same so they don't practice such diligence. But its hard to legislate what can be put on television, because when the government starts telling us what to see, we step closer to fascism - it impedes freedom of thought and expression.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", and part of that is being vigilant about what our children are introduced to and allowed to emulate, because the government cannot be allowed to legislate the thoughts and ideas of its people. And that means for better or worse, because you cannot defend only what you agree with - all people's rights must be defended, or no one's rights have any value.
Anyway its almost 11pm here so i'm gonna get of this soap box and go to bed.
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