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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Oh, FYI I was being facetious :giggle:
I highly doubt it'll ever get to that point. DVDs, music, sure, but books? It smells to much like oppression.
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I guessed as much - although you do have a point - make something forbidden and suddenly it's much more interesting!
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Originally Posted by Over
I've voted the 3rd option, but I'm wondering why people here say it's okay to rate movies and videogames, but not books. Dual criteria?
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I certainly didn't say that.
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Originally Posted by Nergal
I think it is the first task of the parents to know what a child reads to understand what it asks or fears or admires. It would make it too easy to classify literature. Children are not at the same maturity with the age of 12 or share the same fears. All readers are individual human beings, not machines.
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Hear sodding hear. It really annoys me when people let others take the responsibility for bringing children up away from their parents.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
And on a personal note, if I ever found out someone was allowing access to my grandchild any of the above mentioned, they would have to deal with me, not the government.
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And again, hear hear. That is how it SHOULD be. Even in this flawed world in which we live, that is how it should be.