From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:08:18 GMT

manx says:

>   Somebody was not paying very good attention to their ginger ale,
>for which Manx is thankful.  Wiping his lips, he continues:

>   "So, as long as I've been preaching a bit, I might as well also
>express my opinion on these matters.  I think that the spread of
>violence in all medias (which is perceptible almost by the minute)
>should be stopped, but that there's no way to turn back the clock.
>Would you ban all early Tom and Jerry cartoons (some of the most
>graphic violence I'VE ever seen)?  I just think that, practically
>speaking, the only thing we can do is try to make less violent
>things in the future, and wait for the old ones to die the death
>of serial-rerun.

>   "On another matter near and dear to my heart, I want to hear
>what people think on the issue of children and the sometimes
>violent games they play.  Particularly, a group of my friends
>and I often do sword-fighting with big-old padded thingys, and
>often get a large crowd of todays youth watching.  Are we being
>a terrible influence on the next generation (as we have been
>accused of being, mind you, several times already)??

kitten, who has been trying to AVOID the controversial....has a
comment to make on this..."i would rather see kids play games...even
with fake swords...than sit on their butts and get fat...i am NOT sure
that tom and jerry or the road runner has damaged me... 

and, much of the stuff done in role playing (good healthy imagination
encouraging activity that is practiced by many of the folx here) is as
blood thirsty as you can get...that's what makes it FUN....

i don't like violence personally...i can't watch it on the big screen
(i cover my head with my sweater and embarrass my companions) but i
think that there are a LOT of factors contributing to the current
violent trend in today's society...and i am more opposed to censorship
than i am to violence..."

>   "Well, I certainly hope that people will be able to return this
>to a kind and reasoned discussion, otherwise I might ask Fast
>Eddie to loan me his blackjack, so I can condone a little violence
>myself...  I'll see if you all turn into criminals."

"sigh"

>   Manx walks away, relishing the (almost) lost pun opportunities
>of the bomb at the start: "Well blow me down, a conversation getting
>out of control?  A-bomb-inable.  Maybe I should re-fuse to get
>involved, or hand the discussion over to my good friend Meg.  She's
>a real firecracker when it comes to these explosive discussions,
>absolutely dynamite. She always goes in with a glycerin in her eye.
>Too bad she's at the Nuke-ids on the Block concert.  Otherwise this
>discussion would have given Meg a ton of pleasure."

"i wish i could respond to this .... but i have fizzled :)"

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conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
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