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Originally Posted by Locke9-05
Television isn't directly harmful or even potentially hazardous to anyone but those who choose to watch it.
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Just like marijuana. That's the idea here. Your neighbor lights up a joint or watches TV in the privacy of his own home and neither activity effects you in ANY way.
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People should be able to make their own decisions and do what they want as long as their choices and actions are not harmful or risky to those around them.
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Exactly
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television is certainly not harmful or risky to those around the individuals choosing to watch it, and there's no evidence that indicates otherwise.
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what about the whole violence on TV leads to real life violence argument? My argument for marijuana decrim./legalization that punish those that harm others could apply here to, if someone harms another it was there conscious decision to do so and they will be punished for it.
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Marijuana is a completely different story--inducing side-effects that are potentially hazardous and risky, side effects that are outwardly unhealthy and unpleasant, etc.
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There is no evidence that these side effects that effect a minority of users and effect a user for the deration of the high, will cause someone to murder or cause harm to their family or friends, it just is not going to happen. Despite what reefer-madness sensational yellow journalism of the 1930s may say.