From can.general Fri Mar 26 18:22:44 1993 Xref: utcsri rec.arts.movies:113721 can.general:16223 soc.culture.canada:17012 bc.general:884 Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,can.general,soc.culture.canada,bc.general Path: utcsri!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!pipex!uunet!looking!brad From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Movies banned in BC, Canada Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp. Distribution: na Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 08:21:58 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar26.082158.25298@clarinet.com> References: <1993Mar24.004057.27501@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Lines: 35 In article sweaver3@mach1.wlu.ca (scott weaver 9209 U) writes: >In case you haven't noticed the increase of real-life violence and >sexual-abuses happening, I wouldn't doubt for a second that this is in >part due to the increase of voilence and pornography in movies and on >television. I think you miss the point. Even if this connection were certain, even if movies about rape were known beyond a shadow of a doubt to increase rape, are you suggesting that they should be banned? Karl Marx wrote a book once that inspired several societies who declared it to be their highest ideal. They followed its directions about setting up a dictatorship of the proletariat and in each case that dictatorship became corrupt. In several of the cases it lead to economic ruin, oppression, destruction, poverty and starvation for HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, perhaps BILLIONS of people, and the painful cruel murder of millions of people. This connection is far more certain than any connection ever suggested between movie violence and real violence, between movie degredation of women and real life repression of women. The people doing the murdering and ruination actually held up the book as their guide as they were doing it, declaring that it inspired them, even though they had corrupted much of its message. Yet in spite of this very compelling link between this book and the ruin and death for millions upon millions of people, which to be frank makes all the rape and violence in Canada look like a walk in the daisies, I have not seen the suggestion that this book be banned. And it should not be, nor the other things. There is no justification to respond to portraits of violence with the real violence of book-banning, the jailing of publishers. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366