it's ridiculous to curse walmart for censoring, then follow that statement by how you just go to another store to buy the media.
of course, wal-mart knows that you have that option... but they are either hedging their bets that enough people will prefer the edited version or it is just simply against their standards to stock such items. as long as there is an alternative, any criticism of walmart is mute. you have no right to consume a certain level of sex, drugs etc. if no one exercises their right to produce that racy material, you have no one to blame.
it seems that a lot of people think that just because they deem something acceptable that it is infringing on their rights if other have more discerning standards. no one is forcing you to accept anything, you shouldn't force that on anyone else.
a lot of PC bashing goes on, but few realize that they are part of that same machine.
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