tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post111889348912375901..comments2023-10-26T06:26:18.223-04:00Comments on yave begnet: top ten dumbest top ten listsyavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434935209549959812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1120859004846101072005-07-08T17:43:00.000-04:002005-07-08T17:43:00.000-04:00This concept of these lists is a silly one. I frow...This concept of these lists is a silly one. I frown on censorship in any form. It worries me. I agree with Dave about how we would all be better people and the world would be better if we all read or watched something we disagreed with at least once a year.caos27https://www.blogger.com/profile/07572745923793993931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1119408983880941202005-06-21T22:56:00.000-04:002005-06-21T22:56:00.000-04:00Okay, I agree that these lists are silly and dumb...Okay, I agree that these lists are silly and dumb. In fact I would argue that some of the books on the list were beneficial for our society. I am against censorship in general, however I think that there is a definite need for some level of censorship. For example, I recall you mentioning several weeks ago that while watching Sin City that you saw a child with their parents. You continued on that it was not a movie for children. I totally agree that it is not. Although it is a great movie, it's just not appropriate for a mind not mature enough to handle it. My point is that I believe that a rating system for such things as movies, television, video games, magazines and even books is appropriate. We currently have a rating system for video games and movies, but I know of no such rating system for the others. I do not in anyway want to take away any person's right to view material in any of these mediums, but I don't think certain subjects are appropriate for children until they mature enough. <BR/><BR/>So my question to you is this -- Is it the parents duty to censor material for their children that are not yet ready, or the school's or government's duty? I believe much like Hilary Clinton on this where in her book "It Takes a Village" she makes that point that not only is the parent raising your child, but teachers, church leaders, media and so on are as well... hence it takes a village. I think that if we leave it to the parents alone that it won't happen effectively in some cases. Am I way off on this? Do you think that any form of censorship is wrong?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1119336568645486372005-06-21T02:49:00.000-04:002005-06-21T02:49:00.000-04:00I think you miss my point. If you've gotten the im...I think you miss my point. If you've gotten the impression that I believe in nothing passionately, I must not be conveying very well what's on my mind on this blog. <BR/>I'd be fine with a list of harmful books that included Mein Kampf, the Learned Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the KKK book, maybe a few others. But what would be the point of such a list? Who but racists and anti-Semites would disagree that the ideas in those books are harmful? Would you advocate banning the books I listed? I'd say then that the cure is worse than the disease. <BR/>The point is that most of the other books on either list, from what I know of them, fall somewhere in the middle ground of acceptable political and social discourse. When you start to cordone off positions that are part of this middle ground, you begin to restrict the freedom to discuss controversial ideas, and by doing so you limit the scope of permissible change. Would I restrict Human Events' right to publish their list of dangerous books? Of course not. Would they restrict my right to read Mein Kampf, if they could? Maybe, and that's what I find troubling.yavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434935209549959812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1118951715037395132005-06-16T15:55:00.000-04:002005-06-16T15:55:00.000-04:00do you think there is such a thing as a dangerous ...do you think there is such a thing as a dangerous book? i think there's a huge, HUGE, gulf between a book that one disagrees with and a book that inflicts a violence--be it a moral, cultural, or political one. maybe both of these lists are silly, but i don't think the concept is entirely. after all, if you don't believe that some ideas stand against everything you believe in, then you believe in nothing passionately. and what is the point of life without that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com