"childrenpeople are often as curious as the sterotypical cat, and telling them they *can't* read something means at least one of them is going to trya lot, if not most, of them will try that much harder to read it." Fixed that for you. :P
the parents should actually keep an eye on This is good, and totally fine (to a point, of course). Too many people, though, want to censor things from other people and other people's kids, instead of just themselves and their own.
That killing-with-your-big-gun thing sounds exceedingly painful. For both the attackee and the attacker.
As for footnote 4, I can only respond with this:
I will reserve judgment on your line with footnote 7 until such time as footnote 7's essay has been written. I have thoughts here, but I'll hold them for now.
I think a better word for "internal censorship" is simply "privacy." For us Americans with that whole First Amendment thing, "censorship" carries negative connotations; "privacy" does not (unless, I guess, you happen to be one of those people who says if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide and so should hide nothing, which is complete BS). In my book privacy is okay (I guess also to a point - my theory is, don't be totally closed off from everyone; at the very least, choose one person (or two or ten, if you feel like spreading private things out so no one person knows everything) who you share with and don't hide everything from). We humans are nosy critters, though, and I guess can't much help but to want to butt in and know everything about everyone.
So..err..questions! Or, one question, since you specified just one, and I only have one anyway: 1) Who's this boyfffffff you speak of?
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ninetydegrees
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on 2008-12-05 02:03 am (UTC)"
childrenpeople are often as curious as the sterotypical cat, and telling them they *can't* read something meansat least one of them is going to trya lot, if not most, of them will try that much harder to read it." Fixed that for you. :Pthe parents should actually keep an eye on
This is good, and totally fine (to a point, of course). Too many people, though, want to censor things from other people and other people's kids, instead of just themselves and their own.
That killing-with-your-big-gun thing sounds exceedingly painful. For both the attackee and the attacker.
As for footnote 4, I can only respond with this:
I will reserve judgment on your line with footnote 7 until such time as footnote 7's essay has been written. I have thoughts here, but I'll hold them for now.
I think a better word for "internal censorship" is simply "privacy." For us Americans with that whole First Amendment thing, "censorship" carries negative connotations; "privacy" does not (unless, I guess, you happen to be one of those people who says if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide and so should hide nothing, which is complete BS). In my book privacy is okay (I guess also to a point - my theory is, don't be totally closed off from everyone; at the very least, choose one person (or two or ten, if you feel like spreading private things out so no one person knows everything) who you share with and don't hide everything from). We humans are nosy critters, though, and I guess can't much help but to want to butt in and know everything about everyone.
So..err..questions! Or, one question, since you specified just one, and I only have one anyway: 1) Who's this boyfffffff you speak of?