When are newspapers editorialists and legislators going to learn you can't legislate morality?
The latest media darling - “sexting” - is today’s excuse for more government interference into private lives and government control of the masses.
What the media herd is calling “sexting” is the fault of parents who won’t control their kids’ activities. The cure is for parents to confiscate their kids’ phones, not try to get laws to determine what kids may or may not do with their cell phones.
Anyway, why should a youngster believe that seeing nude pictures of anyone of any age is a bad thing? On television they see nude pictures with only the nipples, penises and butt cracks fuzzed out; on television see women preaching that “size DOES matter;” in magazines see older adults patting each other down because Viagra rules, also with ads for videos teaching the “art of oral sex;” and they’re only a mouse click away from reading about the “top lesbian sexual fantasies.”
All this government and media involvement should be aimed, instead, at the huge and all-pervasive sex-oriented industries which are in everyone’s face at every turn. As for children, they are still the responsibility of parents, not government.
Kids don’t need cell phones. Recognize that and you’re halfway there.
Butt out, Big Brother.
AMEN Bruce! When will you run office?!
ReplyDeleteLove your outlook and take on politics! And to KNOW that "I" personally went to Ohio senators about this EXACT issue and they could have cared less!
Now, if they would convict all these teenagers, our government would have a BIGGER mess on their hands than what they have now!!