Promoting Sin by Buying Songs?

[S_V7]

Ok so there are these songs I like from this band and before I went off and bought them I thouhgt I’d make sure there was nothing questionable about the songs/lyrics and such. Everything seemed ok until I saw a piture from one of their music videos that seemed a bit odd and rather questionable but I couldn’t exactly tell what it portrayed. I looked up the video, watched it and saw where this picture might fit in the video but still wasn’t sure since I thought they might have cut this particular part or something for public purposes. I drove myself insane trying to relocate the pic so I could compare it to the video but couldn’t find it:banghead:. So my question is, how far should one look into the moral qualifications (for lack of better term) of an artist/movie/whatever before spending one’s money on it? I believe I remember reading something here about it being quite wrong, perhaps gravely so, to watch a morbid movie simply because one paid for the production and promotion or something like that. I know not everyone is squeaky clean in their motives and all but I also don’t want to pay for something that could lead other’s to sin.

 

[Kathrin]

Just my spontaneous opinion is that we can never know exactly what somebody’s motives are/were. PLUS if we searched out people’s pasts we would probably find something morally questionable with most evrybody (ourselves included) . So I do not think we have to go as far as you went. Otherwise I guess we caouldn’t buy/watch/listen to hardly anything anymore.

Kathrin

 

[JFonseka]

You are being too scrupulous.

 

[gtdannemiller]

I try and look into lyrics as well-I hate hearing profanity when I can avoid it. Taking time to make sure music is what you want to hear, in my opinion, is a good thing. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You aren’t being scrupulous, you are making sure music is up to your standards, and I see nothing wrong with that.

 

[Fitswimmer]

I try and look into lyrics as well-I hate hearing profanity when I can avoid it. Taking time to make sure music is what you want to hear, in my opinion, is a good thing. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You aren’t being scrupulous, you are making sure music is up to your standards, and I see nothing wrong with that.

That’s fine-as long as it remains a personal decision. As soon as people start saying that music, movies or books should be banned because the content does not agree with their personal values, that’s a whole 'nother thing.

 

[brianwalden]

That’s fine-as long as it remains a personal decision. As soon as people start saying that music, movies or books should be banned because the content does not agree with their personal values, that’s a whole 'nother thing.

I disagree. We as a society have the right to decide that certain materials (for example, pornographic media) are dangerous to society and to make them illegal.

 

[Kathrin]

I remember from other posts that S_V7 does have a problem with scrupulosity.
(To which I can relate)

I would say if it starts being an issue that causes much anxiety, for somebody who knows he suffers from scrupulosity, it is healthier to let go of the obsessive thoughts.

Kathrin