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The media goes with what sells. We are very diverse and schizophrenic as a nation. We have many that stick by our puritanical/biblical roots and many who see that as a hinderance.
Entertainment has to consistantly raise the bar in order to maintain shock value and sell. To the puritanical/biblical side this is the signs they point to as a Godless society. Yet the movies and entertainment sells.
These same people argue about sex and love making and yet violence they can never get enough of.
The media in my opinion does a great job of balancing it and offering whatever you want...just a question of finding it sometimes.
Bans in small communities may work, and fining Stern off the air may work for small periods of time but in the end all censorship truly does is opens the door for other forms of media. (Stern, and company goes to satelite..... Cable replaces over the air stations...... porn movies are sold over the internet instead of local sleaze stores in bad neighborhoods.)
So while there maybe movements to ban something or to pander to a constituency.... the reality the politicians know is the lip service truly means nothing. Although the hefty fines are a nice source of income.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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