by Mikalyn

Created on: February 01, 2010

                I’ve heard so many views on these issues but no one puts them together as I think they should be. Drugs, sex and violence on our television on the internet and on the streets is upsetting, particularly when it’s tasteless or performed for seemingly meaningless reasons. My take on this issue is a little different than most. When it comes to telling Hollywood to clean up their act, we really just can’t do that. They are expressing a freedom that WE have designated important…important enough to make the first amendment to our constitution. I think that it’s the wrong fight we’re fighting here. The problem doesn’t lie with Sex, Drugs and Violence. The problem lies with the people.

                Pretend there are no people in the world, just a wild jungle of nature and animals like those nature shows on daytime Nova. There’s a lot of violence in those shows I mean one minute you’re doting over a sweet baby seal and the next minute it’s being ripped apart by the sweet polar bear. There is sex in those shows quite often and I’m pretty sure that if there were no people to eradicate the drugs that nature has provided then they would be prolific as well. My point here is that sex, drugs and violence occur naturally. They are part of this world, this existence and so the real problem is the way that people use and abuse these things.

                People love to take things to extremes, we obsess. This is where addicts of all kinds come from. We can find these obsessions on both sides of the equation. For example that man who killed the abortion doctor just a little while back. He was obsessed with what he thought (and what many people think) is a righteous cause and he took to too far. His sickness and that of your neighborhood heroin addict is essentially similar if not the same.

                Some people can watch sex and violence on TV and handle it in a “healthy” way. I hesitate to use the word “healthy” because these aren’t the people tuning into Zombie Hell every night. Most of the time those of us who have a healthy relationship with these things are a bit more tasteful, it comes

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