Posted on 07/05/2011 1:50:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
Shut up, Phyllis.
“This wasn’t a First Amendment case, it was a parents’ rights case”
BS
Look for laws banning the sale of pornography to minors to be struck down next. What a world.
I agree. Parents have the right not to buy these games for their kids. They also have the right to take them away when they find them.
Asking the government to parent your kids is a very, very dangerous thing.
I agree, but maybe not in the way you mean. What this did was remove one of the tools a parent could use to have at least some measure of control over what a child is exposed to. Parents can't be with their children 24/7. It's not about whether violent video games are harmful (I don't really think they are), it's that kids now have the legal "right" to buy whatever they want.
“Parents can’t be with their children 24/7. “
Well, that sure is a good excuse to impose a Nanny State.
“Can merchants sell pornography directly to children? If not, why not.”
Are you talking about the shows kids can see on HBO? Or the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogues? Or are you maybe talking about what passes for ‘sex ed’ in the schools anymore?
Honestly, I see the pages of dirty magazines as far less damaging than is the seal of approval given to deviancy by our public schools and the popular media. As least most kids know to be ashamed of having a dirty magazine.
So why is there still a drinking age?
Okay, then on this issue alone, to the exclusion of all others: Shut up Phyllis.
I agree. We should ban all laws restricting a minor's access to anything their little hearts desire. /s
So you think minors should be able to buy whatever they have money for?
Do you think this is what the SCOTUS decision was about?
Better ban D&D also. (Hello, 1980s)
Give the Court time. They can’t destroy everything at once. Children have a “right to privacy”, don’t they?
After seeing what the Socialists, homos and Muslims did with free speech in Europe and Canada in the name of “stopping hate”, looks to me like the judges are being real clear that no government body has the right to control speech in the US. Our international socialists were all set to slam that hate speech nonsense through in the US.
You could hear in Ms. Lindsay Graham’s squeeky voice when he said that there ought to be a law preventing a minister from buring a Koran. Petraus agreed. They did not mention whether burning bibles and putting crosses in piss should be legal. Then Palin denounces the Supreme Court for not banning the hate speech she hates - the wacky military funeral protestors.
No one wants to take personal responsibility anymore for the tolerance necessary to live in a free society. Tolerance is ultimately tested when we have to hear social and political speech we do not like or agree with in public.
Political correctness where the elite of politics, business, social institutions and media team up to pick and choose what hate speech will tolerated and what hate speech won’t be tolerated, is a curse on our freedom and causes all kinds of confusion about tolerance and free speech. The Supreme Court is straightening that confusion out.
Removing parental control over what a minor can purchase is like laws banning hate speech in adults?
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