Kugetsu wrote:
Eh, I don't see what the point of the whole lawsuit is. Of course the parents could be the type of people that shelter their kids from every possible "evil" in the world (I happen to know one >_>). The child would be more offended by curse words if she were secluded for her whole life which is just making things worse. Would you rather want a child walking around that barely thinks about the word or disregards it altogether when it's used or one that sits there plugs their ears and chants "This isn't a(n) [enter child's name] appropriate conversation." while rocking back and forth at the sound of "darn"? Eh, anyway, I'd say it's the parents fault anyway. If they can blame Walmart for not marking the f-word on this particular CD, then the parents weren't responsible enough to check out the CD before they bought it.
I've never met anyone that could tell me what "that" certain word really means in the context that it is used in. That's because if it ever had a meaning, it has dwindled to nothing but a sentence filler.
Exactleh, man. I have a good friend who's mom shelters her a lot - for a while she wouldn't even let her read LOTR, although she WOUDL let her read Where The Red Fern Grows, which is about ten times more bloody, and Animal Farm (I love Animal farm, by the way. But ANYWAY.).
She's only JUST been allowed to watch PG-13 movies.. I've been allowed to watch those since.. I don't remember. The lable means Parental Guidance OR aged 13, not both... arrg.
An yeah, all right, while I know young kids shouldn't watch movies rated R a lot (*coughs... she's probably a young kid and is gonna try to rent Braveheart again this month*) cursing doesn't matter.
It's just words which people have decided, over the course of years, to be unspeakable.
I dunno why.
Well, okay, I figured out the D-word after watching that one movie on Darwin or something... But really, I see little point.
"smurf"ing them out on the forums is okay - I mean, it doesn't hurt me if someone on the forums cusses me out, but it makes me think they're a real jerk... the word smurf in there makes it so worthwhile. And so FUN!
But in music? I don't generally like songs with cursing in them, because they're usually rap or metal or punk or some sort of music I don't like anyway... but if other people like to listen to it, fine! Most of the kids at my school do, anyway. And Nobody, I mean NOBODY gets away with suing over a single word.
Because that could be my preciouss Braveheart CD.
Except... here, they get away with it because it's Wal-Mart. And Wal-mart is ebil, so they need some... sue-age. Hehe, sewage. But it's the principle of the thing, dern it!