You guys collectively are pretty horrible, do you know that? No, no - its my single aspect theory that causing it, not its mine - no I have a friend, who raised his kids without exposure to the real world, and they turned out so cortious... No - there is a reason, why there are labels on movies, because they are bad for them children...
I wouldnt want to get cought with you on a long trainride, If I had do listen to stuff like that..
The only thing we pretty much agree on, is that its an issue, if folks get raised just to follow whatever the dogma of the day is, an not to apply critical thinking.
Here is my perspective on a few things here.
Limiting you childrens access to media is something you can do. Should it be hyped to the heavens as the perfect mode of parenting, because you are preventing them from all the negative impulses of modern media (what?) probably not. If your kids turn out level headed, great - if they turn out asocial, because you hawk over them going to the cinema with their friends, while they are never able to talk about favourite TV shows with their peers, and have a culture shock later in life, when they expose themselves to some of the stuff - you failed at parenting. You know that, right? But oh his kids where so level headed.
There are ratings on products for a reason. Ha - yeah. Lets pull those two arguments together and let me present you with a story to set both of them in context.
I actually set through a presentation of a ratings board once, and through a lecture of a TV censor, that explained why and to what extent they censor motherflipping scenes, in motherflipping movies on TV.
Here is the jinx of it. The people that got drawn to he ratings board presentation, where al in all - entirely horrible morons. That where of the impression, that exposure of their children to violent or 'horror' content would ruin their poor existences. I raised my hand on the panel to ask how censors would react to ironic content in something like zombie games (I believe Dead Rising had come out right around that time), which can be rather camp and self reflective, and the answer pretty much was, that they couldnt account for that - within their set of rules. All the other questions, and I kid you not - where all about how to better save them youths from all those violence out there. In them action movies, and videogames. So I got a pretty good understanding of what "part" of humanity drives those ratings and censorship attempts. Again, people who might be somewhat detached, sheltered, and for what ever reason have made their single point of focus to prevent others from experiencing certain aspects of humanity.
Now am I a splatter and horror fanatic? Far from it. I saw horror flicks in cinema, when I was far too young for them (with the disgression if the cinema clerks that where on ticket duty at the time), I probably watched Event Horizon wile staring at the outer edge of the cinema screen half of the time, just to calm me down, I saw Scream when it was fresh at the cinemas (enjoyed it), and I saw Takashi Miike flicks, just for the experience, later on in life. Those I wouldnt even recommend for you to look up if you are near the mindset of the save our children through censorship crowd. All those were experiences. All those didnt warp my mind to where I... Finish the rest of the sentence on your own.
Parenting. Yes, yes - everything ins bad parenting in your minds. And with just the proper education, and with just the proper parenting style - this would never happen to your children. Good. As long as you pay attention to them you are probably right. What we havent talked about is the school environment. Take an intellectually gifted person, stick them into a class with a bunch of morons, and you've got yourself a drifter. Take a socially challenged person, and stick them in an environment where chocks rule the earth, and you've got yourself someone with a target on their back, take a child of a helicopter style parent - and expose them to an active youth scene - and they may become shellshocked. Then add all kinds of moronic societal pressures of what defines a "proper" child of that age, and you get self doubts, segmentation by rank, social outcasts, mobbing, ... All of that to a larger degree in the american school system - at at least from what your movies like to represent (liberal hollywood, I know..) is dysfunctional as can be. Yes, teach your child to become a cheerleader, and they will bring it far in life.
I dont know - has anyone of you ever seen "The Breakfast Club" (
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). I really liked that movie. And not once have I sat through watching it and thought to myself - well, how well adjusted could those children have been, if only they got proper parenting.
So that tagline - is for morons.
The threshhold, not to produce a psychotic mass murder of a child is so low - that any properly adjusted family or friends circle as an environment will do. Dont fancy yourself an your "proper" children education methods, just for fucks sake - pay attention to you child - and you should be ok.
Now - in the case of the person with a different body image, than what they were born with. That stuff might get more complicated, because in that case its not only environment. In other school shooter cases it might not be as well. I dont know where to take this one. Maybe - if your child has special needs, dont neglect them either. I dont know.
Cannabis, isnt known to induce violent psychosis ver often either, alcohol is. Apart from that I have no opinion on that matter, I'm not a pro legalization advocate. (De-criminalization, sure - if your bar is "we have the biggest prison population in the world by a factor of 3-4x again, you are failing as a society.)
Trump in this thread? Why. Does that guy even follow you to your sleep by now? Or do you get the narratives drilled in by Fox and friends to an extend, where you think that talking about your president in each and every thread makes it more political? Have some decency. Leave some og the aggitation potential untouched.
Also - just to get this straight - if you want to shelter your children while they are growing up, by all means do. But if they seek out other experiences by themselves, dont become what I see you becoming in my minds eye - because you fashion yourself a perfect parent. You have a strong impact/grasp over the first 12 years of your childs upbringing. You dont have so much over the second 12. The art in my mind much rather is to find a balance there - than to fancy yourself the perfect parent. Chances are that you make this up for show on online forums anyhow.
I dont believe a word of it.