Why am I sickened and so easily offended by immoral things in the media?
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It really hits you hard.  I saw on Dateline the sicko's going after underage girls on the internet and trying to meet them in person. I also see that John Walsh is having a similar show on FOX.  I get so mad when I see this happening.  It's got to be some sort of disease...I don't understand it.  It is so WRONG! It leaves a disturbing feeling inside of me, so I know what you are talking about.  I seriously do not know how a guy can think that an underage kid is right for them. If you think like that, you should be put away for good or cut off down there.
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The only thing you can do is change your perspective. People have to realize that taking care of yourself is more important than just filling a companies quota for the day. Logically, you are not doing anything wrong. So there should be nothing to feel bad about. You're not alone. Its a sociological virus implanted by old Puritan Christian morals that leads people to view their lives in a uitilitarain since. The sense that if you are not of a communities use, then you are worthless. You are an individual that deserves justice and respect, not a gear in a machine... take care of yourself.
84690
Why is this so sensitive but brutality,terror,decapitation,suicide bombings are OK?
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what i am not liking now is that people are becoming more and more numb to what is happening around us. We are losing our values so long as we go to the "popular" masses.\nwhat were tabooed before are now being accepted as the right thing. \nConsult your bible...nothing has changed!!!
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People now-a-days have no morals. It's sad really, a lot are influenced by media, and everyday life. But if people consciously know right from wrong, then it's all in their mind and their decision whether or not to do wrong-doing.
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Selfishness and self seeking motives.\nI like to watch entertainment news to see what people value. It is generally an exaggerated view, but still a glimpse into the moral health of society in general. People value gossip, anorexic bodies, overpriced clothing and bags, and plastic surgery. I rarely see pop culture discussing the environmental values of a celebrity. They never discuss their exercise routine, healthy diet, or friendly demeanor. Our society is run by the seven deadly sins if we don't choose to live otherwise. I commend you for holding true to your morals. You will be rewarded with a happier and healthier life. Remember if somebody smears their negative energy all over you and then leaves that they take that negative energy with them, they have to live with it, not you. See them as sick people, not bad. Careful not to judge because it could be you with a closed mind one day................
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They legally get to do immoral acts on you while telling you that they are the moral ones. What I mean by this is they manipulate and psychologically skew reality until you think the way that they do. THIS is no different than brainwashing and cult behavior. It ought to be illegal and everyone who knows of such a place ought to get together with friends and a van and go down and BREAK THESE people OUT and HIDE THEM from these bastards that claim to be doing gods work. HOW many GAY CHILDREN commit suicide EACH DAY? THIS has to stop. STOP telling people that theyre SICK or UNLOVABLE BY "God" because theyre gay, this is so damn Naziesque. Please understand that fat men in drag do not represent the majority of homosexuals, they just represent the ones who want to be seen at these events. Most peple think Im straight and look shocked when I tell them. Alot of gays are 'fat' because theyre depressed as hell- and theyre depressed because society tells them theyre NOT wanted. They dress in drag because the ONLY role models gays have are those who go out of their way to stand out, the flamboyant ones in drag. If gays became more ACCEPTED in society you would see more people like myself representing the gay community instead og 'fat' drag queens. I PERSONALLY dislike the whole shake your ass in tight leather shorts while wearing lipstick and saying "hey honey!!!!" because it continues the idea in straight peoples minds that we are freaks. But like I said, its the gays with balls enough to get out in public and say "Im HERE IM QUEER GET USED TO IT" that are getting the attention, and unfortunately theyre the only role modles. THANK GOD Neil Patrick Harris came out of the closet. OTHERS like him need to stand up and say ya know, Im gay, and I look like everyone else and act like everyone else, so use me as a role model to show youre gay. Up until recently its just been the ones who apparently are so depressed that they feel they have nothing to lose by 'showing their asses' in public. Which is really what I feel that sort of behavior is, acting like a fool. BUT, thats my opinion and as Harvey Firestein (sp?) once said "exposure, at ANY cost"----but the cost seems to be having everyone believe that all gays act this way.
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I think the fact that you were scolded in the first place is an example of the underlying problem western society faces.  We all believe in freedom of speech, to the point that ignorant, irrational and illogical cartoons about a sacred religious leader are allowed, albeit with some disdain, under the ideals of freedom of speech.  Yet so many great questions, like yours, based on logic, are completely written off as taboo.  I too like to discuss the "unmentionable" issues that are in fact key to our society's progression.  A huge example is the "unpatriotic" label alot of Americans got back in '03.
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Disgusting, immoral, and the list goes on! Very much so! If having moral standards makes me a homophobe then so be it!
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Look, I feel attacked for my beliefs, too, but being in our position is very difficult. We need to be good, loving, turn-the-other-cheek, WWJD people while fighting evil. And the fact that Christianity and Conservatism has been hijacked by those who would do their own evil will above the good of this country and her citizens, doesn't help much either...we're in bad company...even though there are many good people who are both Christian and Conservative.\n\nOne problem is that many people say that Jesus was tolerant. He was tolerant of people that broke God's laws because they didn't know any better. That is how he brought so many to believe in him....he showed them compassion....but he never said "You have been saved, now go back to the life you were living." He said, "You have been saved, now go and sin no more." He also never spoke against any of the Jewish laws forbidding sins such as adultery, homosexuality, stealing, prostitution, etc...he never said any of that was okay, just that if they were willing to turn away from their sins, they could be forgiven. Most people that like to say Jesus was a liberal don't think of those two points.\n\nAlso, Jesus would never say that abortion is okay. There's just NO WAY that would have happened.\n\nHe would have been for the death penalty IF we could find an executioner whose life was without sin.\n\nLiberals want to hijack Jesus for their vision of "tolerance" but not look at the laws that Jesus himself abided by...the laws that his FATHER made.\n\nLastly, it's just too convenient and easy for these liberals to cast stones and try to place blame and find fault then it would be to really address the issues that conservatives feel are most important.\n\nYou're not alone! God Bless!
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I don't offend.  It's a free country.  People can say whatever they want to say and think whatever they want to think. Something can only be offensive if one doesn't allow for other people's thought and feelings and fervently believes that any view other than their own is wrong and therefore is offensive.
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I think that when there are critcizing about religions, its a war the devil is loving. Don't do it stay faithful to your own and let people be their own. If there is some type of media doing this and your against it, boycott it. There is nothing else you can do.
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You are right I feel bad and down and gloomy because idiots like you exist. I cannot believe that you affiliate yourself with known drug addicts and recite fox news like it id real. What a shame you are to humans. I would really like to know what is going bad for us guys.
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unfortunately some people (usually children, sometimes adults in arrested development) just get a charge out of upsetting people. It makes them feel significant or important that they can shock someone. You shouldn't be so porous to such experiences. That's not a criticism of you, it's just general advice. I'd probably feel the same way. But I'd realize what it was, report it as abuse, delete it, and then I'd refuse to give the street urchin any more real estate in my mind's memory.\n\nCheers, mate.
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I think its funny how annoyed people will get at this question - its obvious you're just being inflammatory, but people are so damn serious, they can't see they're being manipulated. \n\nThat's why the vast majority of people are absolute imbeciles and are readily manipulable by society and mass media. It just goes to show how precious people are over their worthless, insignificant and pathetic egos.
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Thank You!  You must be one of the 1% of Americans that has half a brain.  Thank you for saying something about it.  Totally!  F@#$ yeah!  \n\nI feel the same way when I watch TV.  If people have half a brain, they'd see this s%!#.  But most people don't see it.  I can't stand f*&^%ing watching commercials anymore.  And TV sit-coms make me want to f*$^in puke!  I SERIOUSLY wonder if TV and movies are different in other parts of the world.  I bet they are.  \n\nBrainwashing could be from drugs like Zoloft, but it's probibly from lack of education, lack of paying attention, accepting/believing everything people are told, society... it's sick... but I try not to let it make me sick.  I try not to watch too much TV.  When I do, I mute the commercials.  I spend more time at the beach, just enjyoing myself.  If morons want to be morons, let them be.  We can't change the world but we are smart enough to enjoy it ourselves.  I'm just glad I (we) have half a brain.   \n\nP.S.  I censor myself.  The way Yahoo does it, you can't see what the fuck I'm saying?!
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Sadly there are a lot of people in the US who are influenced by anything the media, Hollywood, and their favorite actor or actress tells them. I don't understand it myself. These people are no smarter than you or I, nor do they have access to information we do not. For example, who declared that Michael Moore was more intelligent or had any more information than anyone else? \n\nPersonally, I like to look at facts and make my own conclusions and I look for signs that the supposed "facts" I'm being shown are skewed to a particular reporter's point of view. Having been a reporter at one time in my life, I know that personal agendas often find their way into "news" reporting, and let's not forget that many of the biggest names in news are folks who grew up and thrived on an anti-government attitude in the 1960's. They may want to recreate the chaos that was the '60's, but I, for one, do not.\n\nThere seems to be a certain cache in being against the establishment. A very small crowd of people have had a disproportionately loud presence in the media, skewing perception of what we Americans really think. I'm a native NY'er. After 9/11 I was SHOCKED at how quickly an entire city full of liberal democrat doves turned into hawks overnight. Ask any of my neighbors. We support the war 100%.\n\nAnyone who has a problem with it is either too stupid and brainwashed to understand that fighting the terrorists there keeps us safer over here, or worse, they simply want their own political power and don't care who they hurt - soldiers or innocent civilians who will be killed without the soldiers' intervention - to attain power for themselves. It's disgusting. \n\nWhen I watch democrats pussyfooting around supporting troops but hating Bush, it makes me sick. For once, do what's best for the country, not what's best for yourselves. The power grab is all too obvious and completely disgusting.\n\nYou're all too right about CNN. They are terrible reporters. Their political preference is ALWAYS readily seen. My family in Europe gets their news about the US from CNN and it is always skewed. To hear them you'd think we were all flag-burning atheists who hate Bush and love Hillary. Ha! Luckily, at least for my family, they can call us and get the real story. I often wonder how such negativism affects the soldiers and I hope and pray they don't take it to heart.\n\nThank God for your husband and the other men like him. Don't listen to the foolish, brainwashed youngsters who believe whatever some uneducated moron in Hollywood tells them or the elites who are only after their own agendas and their own power grabs. Real Americans love our troops and support what they are doing. We understand what is happening and though we keep quiet most of the time and let the press do what it will, we know what they say is a load of crap. Take heart. America supports you.