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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JayKay" data-source="post: 250523" data-attributes="member: 324"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Of course we have it better now, than we did 100 years ago.  The improvements are too numerous to list.  I have conversations with older people all the time, about the "good old days" and how they really weren't that great.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And yes, evil has been in the world since (depending upon your beliefs) Eve took a bite of the apple, or we first became self-aware enough to feel jealousy or greed.  Nothing new under the sun, right?</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">However, and this is huge, it's never been this easy for evil to get into my living room.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Then again, to be fair, I wasn't a parent before the internet.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">However, don't generalize.  I think some people assume that all the guys alarmed by this BS, are absent parents.  We stick a tablet in our kids' hands, then go off to have cocktails.  Nothing could be further from the truth - but you couldn't know that about me, I guess.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But you tell me how you would handle it, if your 8 year old is watching a video, maybe even sitting on your lap, and one of these vids comes on.  You have to somehow explain that they should be wary.  That there are sick people out there, who are doing these things, and these things are real.  You tell me how you explain to a little girl, how evil the world can be.  It's not new, granted - but it's nearly inexplicable.  </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I know that there's really no getting around it.  That this is the way the world is, and unless I want to go live on a mountain top, I have to deal with this.  But this thread is meant as a warning to parents.  To watch for this stuff.  What's wrong with giving other parents a heads-up?  </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The internet is a great tool.  I am fully aware.  But I don't feel that I'm being some dusty old fart, by saying that this is erosion.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Actually, more to the point, when I say this is erosion, and I'm told to "pipe down grampa", my thoughts are reinforced.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But I only have three kids.  What do I know?</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Well, I have some whittling to do.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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