When is enough too much, and too much not enough? Only on the subject of censorship.

Teens today, even those brought into private schooling are subjected to so much in the media that could be deamed "inappropriate." Almost everything available to public view offends someone. Sex, violence, and language are the big ones people focus on, but what about other things? Some people think, in true holiday spirit, that Christmas is offencive. I say, if you find it offensive, don't celebrate it.

Actually, i feel that way about most things that are censored. Parents want to protect their impressionable children, but thing are still going to get to their ears. Take the typical public school setting. Everyone has their own little group, and not matter what, EVERYONE gossips. And throughout that gossip, people are going to be called things that aren't very nice. Words like "fag", "whore", and "b****" come to mind. Try as they might, parents can't protect their kids from everything, and those parents who lobby for other commonly-looked-at as offensive materials to be vanquished are going too far.

If you find something offensive in a book, don't read it if it bothers you that much. Don't like what you just heard on the radio or TV? Here's an idea, change the station or simply TURN IT OFF. What a lot of people don't understand is that they have the power to turn off or ignore what offends them. But the don't have the right to protest on it, because their taking away the power of choice from other people, because their standards are different. They have the very right to hear, read, or say material that could be offensive. They also have the same right to choose not too. So give them that right, and keep your morals to yourself.

This is the first time I've read IMiSSHiSSKiSS's work, and I have to say I'm impressed with her style and her reasoning, even if I don't always agree with her conclusions.

I'd simply like to say that, while I think she is right about most of it, I'd like to add a thougt. In that freedom to choose what we watch, listen to, read, and say, we have to remember that we also have a responsibility to both ourselves and those around us, to practice those freedoms in a responsible and respectful manner. Just because you can do something somewhere public doesn't mean you should.