Would buying accessories of a bad TV show be sinful?

[LilyM]

This is a really interesting thread. I do find it interesting that some are so sure of their spiritual strength that they feel they can watch people engaged in mortal sin and not be affected by it in any way, especially when these actions are done by attractive, humorous people. You honestly believe that watching people commit mortal sin does not desensitize you to how terrible sin is, and the fact that our Lord shed his blood on the Cross because of this sin?

I don’t think that eating meat that has been used in pagan rituals, as Paul talked about, is equivalent to watching and laughing at people engaged in immoral, selfish and boorish behaviour, completely antithetical to Christian principles. For those of you who defend these shows, if you could see Jesus Christ sitting on the couch next to you, would you continue to watch?

We see mortal sin all around us in real life - done by our family and friends. People we presumably find humorous and attractive, otherwise we wouldn’t hang out with them. Moreover, people we are around 24 hours a day 7 days a week rather than just half an hour. They surely are a much worse influence on you than Seinfeld ever could be - yet you don’t shun their company, surely, for fear of their example desensitising you to their mortal sins?

Yes I think I could continue to watch if Christ was sitting next to me. The same as I could continue to watch, say, Hamlet, as immorally as most of the characters in that play behave. (And yes, there’s plenty of humour in Hamlet too, so I would be laughing at times).

Because I’m not watching in order to get my jollies from seeing people committ sin, but rather as a morality play - a lesson in how not to live my life, a lesson in the fact that sin is ultimately unrewarding and punished. Such viewing doesn’t desensitise, if anything it makes me more aware of (and determined to avoid) sin. It provides the same lessons that scripture does, only much more vividly being in visual rather than written and relatively modern rather than 2000-year-old form.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

For example, if you bought a T-shirt that has a slogan from the Office or Seinfeld. Both of these shows seem to encourage and/or glorify pre-marital sex and other sins, but is wearing a t-shirt that has the inside joke also promoting these sins by proxy?

Well, I haven’t watched either but think it would depend less on the show and more on the item taken at face value. For example, if I were to buy a sexy figurine of a popular video game character then it wouldn’t matter what kind of game the character was from; I’d still be in trouble for possessing soft pornographic merchandise.

On the other hand, if I were to purchase something like a necklace or a T-shirt marked with a symbol or something that was affiliated to a morally questionable cartoon or TV show…

Example
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You gotta ask, what does this look to other people?
Some may not get it, others might.
Some maybe confused, others amused.

In the end, like a book, the things you wear can be up for interpretation.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

This is a really interesting thread. I do find it interesting that some are so sure of their spiritual strength that they feel they can watch people engaged in mortal sin and not be affected by it in any way, especially when these actions are done by attractive, humorous people. You honestly believe that watching people commit mortal sin does not desensitize you to how terrible sin is, and the fact that our Lord shed his blood on the Cross because of this sin?

Are you kidding me? As a net cafe owner, I’ve caught friends and customers watching pornographic cartoons/comics filled with rape on their computers. Does that make rape, in my eyes, any less of the sick perversion that it is? Bloody heck NO! Frankly, seeing that stuff just makes me wanna pen my own take on the many twisted scenarios I’ve seen: A twist that has the rapist caught and having their heads pumped with lead. > (On other occasions I even make use of decapitation.)

I don’t think that eating meat that has been used in pagan rituals, as Paul talked about, is equivalent to watching and laughing at people engaged in immoral, selfish and boorish behaviour, completely antithetical to Christian principles. For those of you who defend these shows, if you could see Jesus Christ sitting on the couch next to you, would you continue to watch?

I wouldn’t watch any of my favorite shows/movies with Jesus but only for the same reason I wouldn’t watch such inappropriate shows in front of children or nuns.

Then again, this is Jesus we’re talking about so who knows? I’m pretty sure He’s a very intellectual person and thus would not mind engaging with me in a critique of many movies and shows I watch. Then there was the fact that he hung out with a lot of people Jewish society morally looked down upon.

P.S.

And for the record? A lot of perverted jokes I enjoy, I do so because it pokes at the very perverts and acts of perversion they commit. Not that I’d expect you to understand, but if you’ve ever heard of jokes on Japanese sim-dating games you’d know what I’m talking about.

 

[VeronicaAnne]

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and lead us not into temptation …

 

[LilyM]

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and lead us not into temptation …

Amen, and Seinfeld isn’t a temptation for me. Nor, as far as I know, is it for most people who watch. The characters are not in any way presented as aspirational - people we should want to imitate.

 

[Brooklyn]

We see mortal sin all around us in real life - done by our family and friends. People we presumably find humorous and attractive, otherwise we wouldn’t hang out with them. Moreover, people we are around 24 hours a day 7 days a week rather than just half an hour. They surely are a much worse influence on you than Seinfeld ever could be - yet you don’t shun their company, surely, for fear of their example desensitising you to their mortal sins?

Yes I think I could continue to watch if Christ was sitting next to me. The same as I could continue to watch, say, Hamlet, as immorally as most of the characters in that play behave. (And yes, there’s plenty of humour in Hamlet too, so I would be laughing at times).

Because I’m not watching in order to get my jollies from seeing people committ sin, but rather as a morality play - a lesson in how not to live my life, a lesson in the fact that sin is ultimately unrewarding and punished. Such viewing doesn’t desensitise, if anything it makes me more aware of (and determined to avoid) sin. It provides the same lessons that scripture does, only much more vividly being in visual rather than written and relatively modern rather than 2000-year-old form.

You’re comparing Seinfeld to Hamlet? And so that means you watch Seinfeld as a morality play? Are you honestly trying to tell me that you don’t watch Senfeld because you enjoy it, but rather find it a tragedy? Ah, c’mon, you’re not kidding anyone with that line, except maybe yourself. Hamlet doesn’t invite you to laugh at the antics of its charcters nor to find them humorous in any way. It shows all of its characters as very tragic people with tragic lives. But then, maybe you have never read or seen Hamlet. Trust me, Seinfeld ain’t Hamlet, nor does it pretend to be. Jerry Seinfeld would laugh himself silly at your comment.

If people in your life are acting like the characters on Seinfeld, you should be, and I hope you are, down on your knees for them, because their souls are in jeopardy. I certainly hope you are not finding their lives entertaining in any way, and I truly hope you aren’t laughing either with them or at them.

The Catholic Church rates movies and TV shows for a reason. With your reasoning, a person could watch hard core porn and justify it by saying that you’re doing so to learn the morality lessons from it. You’re kidding yourself, and you know it deep in your heart. We are told in Philippians 4:8: “whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” This does not apply to Seinfeld and most other garbage that is on TV these days.

Do you honestly believe that our Lord would sit next to you and watch a show like Seinfeld, which pokes fun at and insults everything for which he poured out his blood on the cross? I don’t think so.

Seinfeld is entertainment, that is what is meant to be. If you say you are watching it as a morality play, all I can say is you will have some 'splaining to do when you stand in front of your Creator.

 

[Brooklyn]

Are you kidding me? As a net cafe owner, I’ve caught friends and customers watching pornographic cartoons/comics filled with rape on their computers. Does that make rape, in my eyes, any less of the sick perversion that it is? Bloody heck NO! Frankly, seeing that stuff just makes me wanna pen my own take on the many twisted scenarios I’ve seen: A twist that has the rapist caught and having their heads pumped with lead. > (On other occasions I even make use of decapitation.).

Your reaction to a rapist shows that your views have strayed far from the teaching of Christ. We should never wish revenge on anyone. A rapist certainly need to be punished, but it should always be done in a way that will hopefully lead him to repentance and salvation, never done just for the sake of punishment. Christ said he came for sinners, not the righteous, and that would definitely include rapists.

I think you need to put away the TV for a while and pick up your Bible instead.

 

[KingTheoden]

Talk to a(n orthodox) priest to begin.

Brooklyn wrote to the heart of the matter: these programs glorify what our Lord suffered punishment, on our behalf. It would seem a breakdown in logic somewhere to think that wearing the trappings of something opposed to Truth is acceptable.

It could be a cloudy issue and in fact many of the most important challenges we face in daily life are not so absolutely clear. But what I try to do in these circumstances is try to find the overall ‘-ness’ of the situation. Is it good-ness or sin-fulness?

And, usually our unique circumstances dramatically affect the reality of a given action. Are we neglecting something important when we choose to do something? When I go to Confession, I try to meditate on (and confess) what virtues I lack which in turn opens me to failing.

On this particular question, I simply cannot see the logical defensibility of wearing or celebrating contributors to faithlessness. There are many courageous entertainers like Eduardo Verastegui who uphold the faith. Instead of funding the enemy, we can support the work of people such as Mr. Verastegui.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

The Catholic Church rates movies and TV shows for a reason. With your reasoning, a person could watch hard core porn and justify it by saying that you’re doing so to learn the morality lessons from it. You’re kidding yourself, and you know it deep in your heart. We are told in Philippians 4:8: “whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” This does not apply to Seinfeld and most other garbage that is on TV these days.

If you’ve actually witnessed any form of hardcore pornography (as I have been forced to put up with, unfortunately) you will realize that, from an artistic viewpoint, those things are absolutely tasteless. There’s hardly any plot and all the focus is on sex acts which just makes it all disgusting and mundane. The only thing close to artistic I’ve seen in pornography are in a rare few hentai manga/games (and believe me, those are hard to find). On the other hand, there are many non-pornographic shows that deploy sex and violence but the center of attention isn’t entirely on that.

Your reaction to a rapist shows that your views have strayed far from the teaching of Christ. We should never wish revenge on anyone. A rapist certainly need to be punished, but it should always be done in a way that will hopefully lead him to repentance and salvation, never done just for the sake of punishment. Christ said he came for sinners, not the righteous, and that would definitely include rapists.

I think you need to put away the TV for a while and pick up your Bible instead.

It’s an exaggeration. I tend to do that a lot when the person I’m talking to doesn’t strike me as one who immediately gets the point. Look, you said watching such things would desensitize me. The fact that I would even make such a vengeful reaction proves just how much I hate the act (and thus, not desensitized).

In fact, one of my biggest gripes against cartoon pornography (other than the obvious moral gripe) is the fact that most scenarios have the rapists getting away with it. It makes me sick and angry (thus my rather graphic reaction >). It’s one reason why I’m writing. It’s in order to attack that industry.

And technically, I don’t watch TV. My family can’t afford cable. Besides, I only watch the thing for news and Pinoy comedy shows. The rest of my spare time is spent on the internet reading online Japanese cartoons/comics.

P.S.

I’d just like to say that the OP only used Seinfield as an example. With that said, why the heck is everybody focusing on that one show? I’ve never even watched it. What about the more globally known shows or other media like, let’s say, the X-Men or F.R.I.E.N.D.S.?

 

[LilyM]

You’re comparing Seinfeld to Hamlet? And so that means you watch Seinfeld as a morality play? Are you honestly trying to tell me that you don’t watch Senfeld because you enjoy it, but rather find it a tragedy? Ah, c’mon, you’re not kidding anyone with that line, except maybe yourself. Hamlet doesn’t invite you to laugh at the antics of its charcters nor to find them humorous in any way. It shows all of its characters as very tragic people with tragic lives. But then, maybe you have never read or seen Hamlet. Trust me, Seinfeld ain’t Hamlet, nor does it pretend to be. Jerry Seinfeld would laugh himself silly at your comment.

Of COURSE there’s plenty of humour in Hamlet! If you can’t perceive it, then it’s possibly because you don’t have a sense of humour (or one that’s similar to mine), or possibly because you don’t really know Shakespeare.

I love the fact that while Hamlet is crazy because his uncle murdered his father and married his mother, Polonius thinks he’s behaving that way just because he’s in love with Ophelia! Polonius’ misjudgement is hysterically funny.

What about this speech of Polonius:

"This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time.
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, ***since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. ***

• How is it not side-splittingly funny that he should drone on and on and on in this way in praise of being brief, and then claim that he himself is being brief! How is it not inviting us to poke fun at Polonius?

What about Gertrude joking about Hamlet being porky - ‘he’s fat and scant of breath’? What’s tragic or serious about that bit of typical mother-son banter?

Or this little exchange:

"HAMLET:
My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye
both?

ROSENCRANTZ:
As the indifferent children of the earth.(235)

GUILDENSTERN:
Happy, in that we are not over-happy.
On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.

HAMLET:
Nor the soles of her shoe?

ROSENCRANTZ:
Neither, my lord.

HAMLET:
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her
favours?

GUILDENSTERN:
Faith, her privates we.

HAMLET:
In the secret parts of Fortune? O! most true! she is a
strumpet. "

For those who understand Shakesperean English, that’s a great bit of bawdy humour.

In spite of all this, I freely admit Hamlet isn’t perhaps the best example. Think of something like Henry IV - a plentiful mix of laughs, including laughing at human frailty and sins (Falstaff’s tendency to boasting, drunkenness and cowardice, for example) and moral lessons (his foibles get him into trouble, and in doing so are the source of the entertainment). Prince Hal turns into a successful warrior in the end, but is he really a goodie? He certainly cuts off his former friends a bit too suddenly and harshly to be a particuarly admirable character.

The Catholic Church rates movies and TV shows for a reason. With your reasoning, a person could watch hard core porn and justify it by saying that you’re doing so to learn the morality lessons from it. You’re kidding yourself, and you know it deep in your heart. We are told in Philippians 4:8: “whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” This does not apply to Seinfeld and most other garbage that is on TV these days.

There are people - film censors, and those very Church film critics you mention, for example - who can indeed justify watching hard core porn or other reprehensible viewing material. They have to, every second of it, in order to rate it and censor it!

Do you honestly believe that our Lord would sit next to you and watch a show like Seinfeld, which pokes fun at and insults everything for which he poured out his blood on the cross? I don’t think so.

I’m sorry that we don’t agree, but if it teaches me NOT to behave badly - which it does, while at the same time giving me a laugh, and the two aren’t incompatible - then it is ACHIEVING the purpose for which He poured out His blood on the cross, not spitting on it at all.

Seinfeld is entertainment, that is what is meant to be. If you say you are watching it as a morality play, all I can say is you will have some 'splaining to do when you stand in front of your Creator.

Yeah it’s meant to be entertainment, so being entertained is wrong now? What exactly am I going to have to explain? That something can be BOTH entertaining AND instructive? Even, possibly, when the instructiveness isn’t intended by the writers or producers?

So I’m only supposed to learn from Sesame Street or similar shows that are specifically intended to be educational? Forgive me for not being, as you seem to think I must be, the sort of person who switches my brain, or my critical faculties, or my ability to discern, when I switch the TV on.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

So I’m only supposed to learn from Sesame Street or similar shows that are specifically intended to be educational? Forgive me for not being, as you seem to think I must be, the sort of person who switches my brain, or my critical faculties, or my ability to discern, when I switch the TV on.

Frankly, I actually wouldn’t recommend infusing entertainment with serious stuff like moral learning. Entertainment is there just for that, to entertain. It’s not there to educate. If I wanted to educate myself, I’d read a book or pay attention in class. Frankly, any moral lesson that seems to present itself via entertainment is actually more of an expression than a form of teaching. Take what I just wrote a few posts above as an example where I would express my anger towards rape in the form of violent retribution. Sure I can be saying rape is bad but it comes off more as an emotional reaction than any form of lecture.

In short, if I wanted to teach about the evils of rape, I’d write an essay or direct a documentary.

If I wanted to express my disgust towards rape, I’d write a story or script a comic.

 

[LilyM]

Frankly, I actually wouldn’t recommend infusing entertainment with serious stuff like moral learning. Entertainment is there just for that, to entertain. It’s not there to educate. If I wanted to educate myself, I’d read a book or pay attention in class. Frankly, any moral lesson that seems to present itself via entertainment is actually more of an expression than a form of teaching. Take what I just wrote a few posts above as an example where I would express my anger towards rape in the form of violent retribution. Sure I can be saying rape is bad but it comes off more as an emotional reaction than any form of lecture.

In short, if I wanted to teach about the evils of rape, I’d write an essay or direct a documentary.

If I wanted to express my disgust towards rape, I’d write a story or script a comic.

I heartily disagree, and so do most teachers that I know. They understand that education doesn’t always and forever have to be done in a deathly dull, earnest or serious way, and often works better when it ISN’T done in such a way.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

I heartily disagree, and so do most teachers that I know. They understand that education doesn’t always and forever have to be done in a deathly dull, earnest or serious way, and often works better when it ISN’T done in such a way.

Well I’m not saying it should be done too seriously but I’m merely saying that there’s a difference between formally teaching/learning something and seeing moral messages in television (or other forms of fiction). The former can still be fun in its own way but the ultimate goal is still to teach you whilst the latter is actually dependent on your interpretation of said work of fiction.

 

[LilyM]

Well I’m not saying it should be done too seriously but I’m merely saying that there’s a difference between formally teaching/learning something and seeing moral messages in television (or other forms of fiction). The former can still be fun in its own way but the ultimate goal is still to teach you whilst the latter is actually dependent on your interpretation of said work of fiction.

And the beauty of being genuinely educated is that you can and do take the analytic tools you’ve been given in formal educational situations and apply them in everyday life - you use your skills in maths when you’re in the aisles in the supermarket, and you use your education in moral theology, or even just literary criticism, when you’re watching Seinfeld or The Office or what have you.

Education is meant to enrich your experience of everyday life and not just be confined to formal teaching/learning situations.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

And the beauty of being genuinely educated is that you can and do take the analytic tools you’ve been given in formal educational situations and apply them in everyday life - you use your skills in maths when you’re in the aisles in the supermarket, and you use your education in moral theology, or even just literary criticism, when you’re watching Seinfeld or The Office or what have you.

Education is meant to enrich your experience of everyday life and not just be confined to formal teaching/learning situations.

Yeah that’s kinda my point actually especially since you mentioned literary criticism because, as much as I didn’t do well in that class, I learned a fair few things from that class. One of them being that fictional works can always be up for interpretation with the author’s intention not even being a factor. With that said, it would in fact make it possible for people to draw out moral lessons from shows via their perspectives and literary analysis even if the show never intended it.

 

[LilyM]

Yeah that’s kinda my point actually especially since you mentioned literary criticism because, as much as I didn’t do well in that class, I learned a fair few things from that class. One of them being that fictional works can always be up for interpretation with the author’s intention not even being a factor. With that said, it would in fact make it possible for people to draw out moral lessons from shows via their perspectives and literary analysis even if the show never intended it.

I see nothing wrong with that fact. A text isn’t composed in order to be kept in a restricted little cell of meaning, the doors of which are jealously guarded by the author. It is intended to be read or viewed by an audience. Therefore its meaning cannot solely be confined to what the author thinks it means, since an author DOES intend, by the very act of publication or broadcasting, that the audience will bring their own preconceptions and points of view to it.

 

[Brooklyn]

Of COURSE there’s plenty of humour in Hamlet! If you can’t perceive it, then it’s possibly because you don’t have a sense of humour (or one that’s similar to mine), or possibly because you don’t really know Shakespeare.

I love the fact that while Hamlet is crazy because his uncle murdered his father and married his mother, Polonius thinks he’s behaving that way just because he’s in love with Ophelia! Polonius’ misjudgement is hysterically funny.

What about this speech of Polonius:

"This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time.
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
Therefore, ***since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. ***

• How is it not side-splittingly funny that he should drone on and on and on in this way in praise of being brief, and then claim that he himself is being brief! How is it not inviting us to poke fun at Polonius?

What about Gertrude joking about Hamlet being porky - ‘he’s fat and scant of breath’? What’s tragic or serious about that bit of typical mother-son banter?

Or this little exchange:

"HAMLET:
My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye
both?

ROSENCRANTZ:
As the indifferent children of the earth.(235)

GUILDENSTERN:
Happy, in that we are not over-happy.
On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.

HAMLET:
Nor the soles of her shoe?

ROSENCRANTZ:
Neither, my lord.

HAMLET:
Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her
favours?

GUILDENSTERN:
Faith, her privates we.

HAMLET:
In the secret parts of Fortune? O! most true! she is a
strumpet. "

For those who understand Shakesperean English, that’s a great bit of bawdy humour.

In spite of all this, I freely admit Hamlet isn’t perhaps the best example. Think of something like Henry IV - a plentiful mix of laughs, including laughing at human frailty and sins (Falstaff’s tendency to boasting, drunkenness and cowardice, for example) and moral lessons (his foibles get him into trouble, and in doing so are the source of the entertainment). Prince Hal turns into a successful warrior in the end, but is he really a goodie? He certainly cuts off his former friends a bit too suddenly and harshly to be a particuarly admirable character.

There are people - film censors, and those very Church film critics you mention, for example - who can indeed justify watching hard core porn or other reprehensible viewing material. They have to, every second of it, in order to rate it and censor it!

I’m sorry that we don’t agree, but if it teaches me NOT to behave badly - which it does, while at the same time giving me a laugh, and the two aren’t incompatible - then it is ACHIEVING the purpose for which He poured out His blood on the cross, not spitting on it at all.

Yeah it’s meant to be entertainment, so being entertained is wrong now? What exactly am I going to have to explain? That something can be BOTH entertaining AND instructive? Even, possibly, when the instructiveness isn’t intended by the writers or producers?

So I’m only supposed to learn from Sesame Street or similar shows that are specifically intended to be educational? Forgive me for not being, as you seem to think I must be, the sort of person who switches my brain, or my critical faculties, or my ability to discern, when I switch the TV on.

I’m always amazed at the lengths people will go to in order to justify something they know is wrong.

I repeat - you’re not kidding anyone but yourself.

BTW, if you remember, the original premise of Seinfeld was it is a show about nothing. Any “morality lessons” you are learning from it are those which you are imputing yourself, and it seems to me, you’re doing that just to justify watching it.

I watched Seinfeld for many years, and I will readily admit I found it a very funny show. I’m sure that if I still I watched it I would still find it funny. But that is the insidious part of it. Because I found it funny, I did not take the fact that I was watching the characters commit mortal sin very seriously. I could sit and watch these characters and think nothing of the fact that it is because of these kinds of sins that our Creator had to die on the Cross. I don’t believe for one second that you think of that either when you are watching this show. If you did, you would not be able to watch it.

There is no reason in the world to watch Seinfeld other than entertainment. We are told to redeem the time in Ephesians 5:16. How many hours have you spent watching garbage like Seinfeld? We only get so much time our in our lives, and we will have to account for it all when we stand before our Lord.

And there are better things to do with your time than watch TV.

 

[Brooklyn]

**If you’ve actually witnessed any form of hardcore pornography (as I have been forced to put up with, unfortunately) **you will realize that, from an artistic viewpoint, those things are absolutely tasteless.

What? Someone tied you up and put a gun to your head and forced you to watch? Huh???

And no, I have never watched hard core porn. Unlike you, I’ve never been “forced to put up with” it.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

What? Someone tied you up and put a gun to your head and forced you to watch? Huh???

And no, I have never watched hard core porn. Unlike you, I’ve never been “forced to put up with” it.

First of all, ever ran a net cafe? Who do you think I deal with everyday? It’s my job to keep an eye on my customers all the time. Both children and adults use the computers here and I have to make sure the adults aren’t watching anything junior should be seeing. Furthermore, I gotta do it with subtlety via the server (it lets me close programs of the other computers remotely). If people caught on that I shut down their net browsers if I caught them surfing for porn, it might turn them off.

Besides, if anything, I find that artistic condemnation of pornography can be a powerful argument. Not many people will accept the morality card because they’re already far too steeped in relativism. If you hit them with the artistic critic card however, and make them feel small with the fact that they enjoy such low-class entertainment, then it makes them think twice.

Finally, I’d just like to say that I actually get a sort of twisted, negative inspiration from porn. It fuels my desire to obliterate sexual fantasies by first creating what looks to be one only for me to flip it over and smash it to the ground. I intend to especially shock those who enjoy scenes of domination and rape. It’s like “Oh yeah, mwahaha he’s gonna do her.” but in the next moment, BAM! I throw something in that turns the tables and has the criminal dirtbag being the one begging for mercy. >

 

[Brooklyn]

First of all, ever ran a net cafe? Who do you think I deal with everyday? It’s my job to keep an eye on my customers all the time. Both children and adults use the computers here and I have to make sure the adults aren’t watching anything junior should be seeing. Furthermore, I gotta do it with subtlety via the server (it lets me close programs of the other computers remotely). If people caught on that I shut down their net browsers if I caught them surfing for porn, it might turn them off.

Besides, if anything, I find that artistic condemnation of pornography can be a powerful argument. Not many people will accept the morality card because they’re already far too steeped in relativism. If you hit them with the artistic critic card however, and make them feel small with the fact that they enjoy such low-class entertainment, then it makes them think twice.

Finally, I’d just like to say that I actually get a sort of twisted, negative inspiration from porn. It fuels my desire to obliterate sexual fantasies by first creating what looks to be one only for me to flip it over and smash it to the ground. I intend to especially shock those who enjoy scenes of domination and rape. It’s like “Oh yeah, mwahaha he’s gonna do her.” but in the next moment, BAM! I throw something in that turns the tables and has the criminal dirtbag being the one begging for mercy. >

I didn’t realize that there was absolutely no privacy at those internet cafes. I hope you let your customers know they are being monitored so that they don’t do things like go into their bank accounts or other private matters, even email.

If my job involved seeing any amount of pornography, I would change jobs. I wouldn’t want any of those images in my head. Why don’t you just post a sign saying no porn, and if you’re caught, you’re out and never allowed back? Wouldn’t that be a lot easier? Or how about just blocking those sites? It can be done, you know. You don’t have to play “big brother.”

Something seems kind of weird here.