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Originally Posted by Danny Fekete
I feel like I agreed with this already in 2008 but I can't find my post, so I might not have gotten around to writing it. So, I agree. I'm against any sort of systematic and mandatory rating or tagging system that's imposed by a sanctioned organization rather than built up by the community. 1-A wikipedia-style catalogue of book tags, with all the internal struggling and sensitivity to consensus would be interesting; 2-an MPAA for books with associated enforcement against potential readers would be horrible.
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1- Totally agree. That would be very good. I would support this kind of endeavor. However, the only doenside I see to this is that you would have no access for this at any bookstore, currently. Unless these could be accessed at kiosks in some stores.
2- I do not thing the MPAA should be involved. I think either the publisher or the author should have the responsibility to say "Hey, this book does contain some mild violence, a bit of language, and some situations of sexuality" or "Contains violence and scenes of rape".
And this has nothing to do with religious beliefs or dogma, or lach thereof. Basic respect from the author to their reader.
I have actually taken a book back to the store because there were scenes that I found disgusting and they were never even hinted at on the back. It was a gratuitous act solely there for shock value, and gave nothing to the story.