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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Sometimes people don't know what the books are. Sometimes it's just someone who won't shut up about them. There are always rumblings about a movie; the thought of the trailers makes my skin crawl.
Where does the cut-off come in, though? I'll use the generic "Bad Thing" here to de-emotionalize this a bit: If a Bad Thing happens to an adult, you're saying that we don't need to prohibit books about that Bad Thing because the adult is capable of self-protection. Likewise, you say that if a Bad Thing happens to a child, we shouldn't expose that child to further examples of the Bad Thing. But what about if a Bad Thing happened to a child who is now an adult? Are they treated, in this case, as an adult or a child?
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Just ask "Is the victim a child?"(present tense) - If the answer is 'yes' then the child needs protecting.
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Inside every problem is a bigger problem struggling to get out.
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Sometimes big problems are just little problems with an inflated sense of self.
Children need protecting
Adults get to do that for themselves
It doesn't matter what the bad thing is, who it happened to, who did it, where, when or why.
All that matters is that children are protected.