[TrashMan]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/02/03/big.brother.children/index.html?iref=24hours

WTF?

Someone should kill those people. They are not parents - they are monsters.

First it was that stupid reality show "trading my wife", which in itself shows grossly irresponsible parents that should have their kids removed from them.

But this? This goes beyond. Child herrasment and mistreatment of the highest level!

"Yeah, lets make children miserable and make them cry on TV for the entertainment of the dumb masses"

[Herra Tohtori]

 

* Herra Tohtori summons some God Warriors to give that burn and then some

There, that should do the trick nicely...

[Dilmah G]

Parents full consent......

Some people really deserve to be shot. I remember how I felt with my parents decisions when I was about 8-ish, they would say yes to things I would've ran from. Surely there must be some kind of law against this. In no way, should 8 year olds and the retarded people on Big Brother have anything in common, this is really overstepping the mark.

Actually letting the kids be beaten up/harassed on camera, and NO-ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT! That's bull**** of the highest order, SIR!

[IPAndrews]

* Herra Tohtori summons some God Warriors to give that burn and then some

Nausicaa?

[iamzack]

Who cares? If their parents are douchebags, the kids are gonna end up douchebags too.

[TrashMan]

Who cares? Who cares?

How can you NOT care when the most basic moral and ethical laws are broken?

When peoeple don't care, that's when the rules get broken the most.

[General Battuta]

Who cares? Who cares?

How can you NOT care when the most basic moral and ethical laws are broken?

When peoeple don't care, that's when the rules get broken the most.

For once someone is out-trolling Trashman.

I do agree, however, this is awful.

[iamzack]

Oh waah, baby humans aren't in the best possible living conditions, and people are PROFITING from it.

Onoes, moral and ethical laws.

Waah, waaaah, waaaaaaaaahhhh.

Happens all the time. Nobody cares when the victims are nonwhite or nonhuman.

[IronBeer]

(sigh)
I do find this reprehensible. I want this fact to be abundantly clear. Furthermore, TV in general has taken a steep dive in quality as of late- last semester, I basically didn't watch any TV in my dorm at all (nevermind that it happened to stop working about halfway thru).
Now.... I need to chose my next words with exceptional care; any forumgoer could sense that this thread is a flamefest waiting to happen, so...
(ahem)
There are some major problems in the world today. I'm not going to bother naming them, due in large part to the fact that said list of problems has those issues at different levels of priority for different individuals. That said, one problem in particular that is applicable to this situation is a general softening of human morality. I won't elaborate much, except to say that this ..."show" is a symptom of the problem rather than a cause. The cause is now indeterminate- especially with TV shows- the network tries a stupid show, people eat it up, the network tries something even more outrageous, people love that, and so on. Allow me to remind you that when you have a situation where people are being filmed (in this case, children) somebody has to be either doing the filming, or overseeing the operation. So in a rather indirect way, I'd wager that those kids had some form of supervision.
Whew... bit different from what I had in mind, but this should suffice.

[iamzack]

you have to wonder what the kids were getting out of it. if they didn't want to be there, you'd ****ing know it. kids are brats.

[General Battuta]

The 'general softening of human morality' is a pretty common myth, fostered by the idea that people are somehow more craven today than they were in the past.

If anything the opposite is true. It's easy to point to examples of this softening, but they don't provide any kind of systematic trend, and they're outbalanced by examples going the other way. Those just aren't reported as much.

[StarSlayer]

The good old days when we would have chained them to a loom from sun up to sun down?   Where their hands were cut to ribbons and they would die at 18 from inhaling all the crap?

Using children for profit isn't a new theme and if you look at the labor forces in some developing nations it isn't a newly revived one either

[IronBeer]

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The 'general softening of human morality' is a pretty common myth, fostered by the idea that people are somehow more craven today than they were in the past.

If anything the opposite is true. It's easy to point to examples of this softening, but they don't provide any kind of systematic trend, and they're outbalanced by examples going the other way. Those just aren't reported as much.

That's what I perceive anyway. I just try to keep my own nose clean, so to speak. People are gonna do what they want, and to be honest- so long as somebody's dubious behavior isn't affecting me, odds are I'm not gonna care. That said, I'm only talking about behaviors that are morally questionable but not illegal. But this thread isn't exactly about criminality, tho...

[peterv]

The 'general softening of human morality' is a pretty common myth, fostered by the idea that people are somehow more craven today than they were in the past.

If anything the opposite is true. It's easy to point to examples of this softening, but they don't provide any kind of systematic trend, and they're outbalanced by examples going the other way. Those just aren't reported as much.

Agreed. Also, pessimistic individuals love to point those examples in every occasion, along whith those whose morality is actually soft, for totally defferend reasons.

[iamzack]

Morality is just another excuse for assholes to be self-righteous.

[Solatar]

If I decide to abuse my children, I have given my full parental consent.

[IronBeer]

Morality is just another excuse for assholes to be self-righteous.

Are you calling me an asshole? Text isn't exactly as subtle as speech, and simply throwing a comment out there could be construed in several ways. I'm not challenging you, I'm just clarifying.

[iamzack]

No

[AlphaOne]

This is just disgusting ! I cant believe how low the human race has fallen ! Seriously none in the animal kingdom would make their offspring miserable and such ! We really are lower then animals aren't we?!

I'd much rather cut off my own hand then make my child go through this kinda of crap ! Disgusting ! It makes me sick and ashamed to be human !

[TrashMan]

Morality is just another excuse for assholes to be self-righteous.

I'd love to describe and explain to you the numerous errors of your ways, but it would take FAR too long to rite it, and I doubt you could even process it. By your writing style and tantrums  I can only assume you're far younger than me and pretty much know jack s*** about anything.


Oh, the 'general softening of human morality' actually is happening. You know why? Cause 25 years ago you would never see things like this on TV. you'd never see kids beating eachother up, filing it and showing to the whole world full of pride. You'd not see people goating a desperate man to jump from the roof and kill himself.

The western civilization is on a fast track to the sewers. Of course, this wouldn't be possible if it also wasn't dumbified....