[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult Content
- From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:01:48 -0500
Please there are books in this world that even adults with discriminating
tastes don't read even if they are a intended for their age range or reading
pleasure. Honestly the children can make poor choices adults can to that's Part
of being human which I think every single one of us on this list is at least
the last time I checked. Younger ones should be perhaps watched more closely
and older ones may be as well if they showed signs of internalizing the bad
parts of what they read to a certain extent. I must say at the age of 17 I
myself read books that are intended for adults from book share mind most of
these books are history or historical fiction And fantasy but I always make
sure they don't have adult content yes markers on them. Not to say that most
children would do this but any child with good taste knows that a book written
with More sexual content and extreme violence then story line should not be
read by them. Sometimes if I run into one that has this I may read it and plan
from that day forward never to read it again.
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On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Indeed it is no different from movie ratings. If a movie is rated X then
> people under a certain age are simply banned from seeing it and that is
> censorship. Simply declaring censorship to not be censorship does not make it
> not censorship. If it is the parent who is making the decision for the child
> then declaring that not to be censorship does not make it not censorship
> either. There are certainly some decisions that parents or other guardians
> must make for children. I remember, for example, grabbing a little girl whom
> I was in charge of and yanking her from the street. She resisted. She stopped
> resisting when she saw the car that was bearing down on her, but prior to
> that she had not seen the car and seemed to be resisting me just because I
> told her to get out of the street. In that case she was making the wrong
> decision and my decision for her had to overrule her own decision. I might
> also point out that she was making the wrong decision because of a lack of
> information. That is, if she had seen the oncoming car she would have most
> likely made the same decision that I was making for her. There are other
> decisions that the parents need to stay out of the way of though. Reading is
> one of the safest activities that there are. Just stop by your local
> emergency room and ask how frequently they find themselves treating reading
> related injuries. I will bet you that the rate is very low. Children quite
> often have entirely different interests from their parents. Parents are
> likely to think that their children should have certain interests and impose
> those interests on the child whether the child likes it or not. There could
> be any number of results and one of them could well be that the child will be
> even more turned off from the subject than they would if it had not been
> imposed on them. To not allow a child to pursue one's own interests strikes
> me as bordering on child abuse itself. Generally, though, there is nothing to
> worry about anyway. Most children will not understand books meant for adults.
> What happens when you start reading a book that you do not understand? You
> get bored with it and put it down. If you are a child you will go back to the
> children's category and choose books that you will understand and read those.
> There are, however, some children who will understand books intended for
> adults. By banning them from choosing those books you are stifling what may
> turn out to be some really great potential. Again, let us concentrate on
> helping children make wise decisions where it really matters and get out of
> their way when it comes to pursuing their own interests.
> On 11/11/2012 3:04 AM, Doug Maples wrote:
>> We've gone down this road before, and probably will again in the future, but
>> I'll have to once again state the obvious.
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