This is the same old liberal question, which came first, the chicken or the egg, is art imitating life, or vise-versa?
At the risk of sounding like a squishy moderate, both Okie and Objector have valid points.
While it is our obligation as parents to oversee what our own kids do, see, and buy, it's just not possible to follow a teenager around all day. How many of you actually know what your kids are doing at their friends house? You may have banned MTV at your own house; try to ban it at their friends, or your neighbors. The free market may be free, but it should have as much responsibility to not polluting our children's minds, as it has to not polluting the atmosphere.
And WE have a responsibility to hold them to it.
If we don't, then plan on living in Soddom & Gomorrah.
ack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove these elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own firsthand experiences at sea, or in Alaska, or in the fields and factories of California. As a result, his writing appealed not to the few, but to millions of people all around the world.