[Calavera]

Let's throw in another factor in this debate, just for funsies.

Child psychology. It is known that children are highly impressionable, especially in the early years of childhood. A child can be programmed with ideals, which could lead to disaster.

With no government censorship, it would perfectly possible for a young child to click on a TV and see a veritable snuff film, a highly pornographic program, or a cartoon shoving a Jew into an oven while shouting horrid things at the Jew. No matter what the parent does, a child will always have TV unless said child is locked in a room with no means of seeing or hearing any kind of broadcasting.

If that happens, then the imprinting in this child may lead it to later lack empathy. It may lead the child to be indifferent to human suffering. The child will develop mental scarring that can lead to killing, maiming, raping, and committing genocide. In turn, he will breed more of the same if the pattern continues.

Ask yourself if you want your young, fragile child to be able to turn on the TV and even catch a glimpse at unspeakable acts that are on television simply to be on television. Ask yourself if you want to child to develop mental scarring from the living room TV.

On the other hand, with complete censorship, we have a world full of mindless drones. We will be easily manipulated and used merely as tools.

The question of TV censorship is not to eliminate it or make it the law of the land. A happy medium needs to be found. In harsh reality, neither end of the spectrum will do any good for us at all.

In a perfect world, we would not have to worry about these things and censorship would not be needed...but we are far from living in a perfect world.