Comments on: This is probably not the best way to get noticed by the government.

Comments on: This is probably not the best way to get noticed by the government. http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2007/10/this-is-probably-not-the-best-way-to-get-noticed-by-the-government A Blog Without A Tagline. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:38:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nobiwan http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2007/10/this-is-probably-not-the-best-way-to-get-noticed-by-the-government/comment-page-1#comment-8917 Nobiwan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:31:02 +0000 http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2007/10/this-is-probably-not-the-best-way-to-get-noticed-by-the-government#comment-8917 I really think what we need is to be able to do referendums on a national scale. Or maybe just scratch the whole thing and start over, so we can actually enumerate a right to privacy, spell out the fact that a right to protest doesn't require permits, and so on. Seriously, one of these days I'm just going to have to write a constitution. And somewhere in there it really should include the right to parent my kids the way I see fit, not the way the state does. If I don't have any problem with my tots watching Aliens or Starship Troopers (my step-daughter used to call it The Bug Movie, as in "I wanna watch the Bug Movie again!!) then it's my prerogative. And if I want to let her play Grand Theft Auto, then so be it. Just because I let her watch violent movies and play video games all about criminal activity doesn't mean she's gonna go out and boost a car tonight. Why? Because you can play games like this and still have ethics, and the common sense to know that this is a game, and what happens in games can't happen in reality. Maybe that's it. Maybe these people just really don't understand that separation between entertainment and reality. I really think what we need is to be able to do referendums on a national scale. Or maybe just scratch the whole thing and start over, so we can actually enumerate a right to privacy, spell out the fact that a right to protest doesn't require permits, and so on. Seriously, one of these days I'm just going to have to write a constitution. And somewhere in there it really should include the right to parent my kids the way I see fit, not the way the state does. If I don't have any problem with my tots watching Aliens or Starship Troopers (my step-daughter used to call it The Bug Movie, as in "I wanna watch the Bug Movie again!!) then it's my prerogative. And if I want to let her play Grand Theft Auto, then so be it. Just because I let her watch violent movies and play video games all about criminal activity doesn't mean she's gonna go out and boost a car tonight. Why? Because you can play games like this and still have ethics, and the common sense to know that this is a game, and what happens in games can't happen in reality.

Maybe that's it. Maybe these people just really don't understand that separation between entertainment and reality.

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