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to: Don Hills
from: Gary Britt
date: 2004-01-13 01:13:52
subject: Re: Gun crazy Yanks

From: "Gary Britt" 

If that's a problem the cure is to remove the pollution (the violence) from
prime time, not to replace it with pornography in prime time as the
enlightened EU nations and others have done.

Cheers,

Gary

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:x90AAtgaXKqD092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article ,
> "Gary Britt"  wrote:
> >You should say in *liberal secular humanist* America Don.  That is
decidedly
> >not the *conservative* or faith based America.
>
> I should qualify my statement by saying that it is an impression gained
from
> watching American movies and TV programs (news/fiction as well as drama).
> I should have tacked a smile on the end.
>
> Having spent over a year in the USA, I'm also aware that
"real" Americans
> are as diverse a lot as any other population. I just think it indicative
of
> a society's attitudes that fatal shootings (real and fictional) can be
shown
> in prime time but sexual intercourse cannot.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> "I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large multi-
> national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent network/internet
> software and decent hardware support."

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