Morality in the media : Othor Games

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:55 am

Breaking news, the main competitor of the newspaper mentioned earlier posted a video on the same case. The contestants were allows to wear pantes, gloves, shoes and a helmet. The video showed several topless women, men and a 70 year old man who looked like he was having a lot of fun.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:58 am

...and a few nipbles never hurt anyone.

A truer statement being spoken would cause the implosion of the universe.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:56 am

I remember the first time I went to europe. I was in Scotland. I saw a comercial and it it had a naked women in it. I freaked out and switched the channel. I was so afraid of it. But now im not.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:24 am

Our country's crippling phobia of all things six-related in all of the media is pretty ridiculous.

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:25 pm

Now that wouldn't really be a good thing exactly, some censorship is all right, but granted too much and unreasonable censorship is worse than no censorship at all. For example, you definitely wouldn't want a 6-year-old kid to see a scene of two advlts sixing each other up with all the juicy details shown on the screen. That and excessively violent scenes with people's body parts flying off of them and getting blown apart is something that actually could cause certain mental issues in small children, IMHO. However, the problem is that certain advlt people tend to think that, since they are reminded of six whenever they see women's nipbles, small children are reminded of the same thing - so they think that therefore seeing women's nipbles is obviously just as wrong as seeing a juicy six scene. However, anyone with any bit of sense in their mind will agree that when a 6-year-old child sees advlt woman's nipbles it will not instamagically get the image of six pop up in its mind thus scarring him forever.

The extreme violence I can see messing up a 6 year old, at least giving him a few nightmares (I turned out relatively fine though) but the six scene? Not buying it, with proper explanation from a parent I don't see how a child could be harmed by knowing what six is and how it works. When I was about 7 or 8 I knew all the juicy details, I never really bought the whole stork thing anyway.

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:02 pm

I think we're going to tell this thread to cover up. Thank you for discussing the topic as decently and in order as possible, but it just isn't a fit topic for the forums.

Moderator gets the last word: The purpose of the event was clearly exploitation. News coverage of the event contributed to some degree to that exploitation. Whether it's worse than other news coverage is a question I'm not going to attempt to answer; it is sufficient that this be objectionable.