Breaking the Faith TV Show

[Guest]

Funny it must be a cultural thing as I find violence as pretty off putting but have no problem with nudity.

Yeah, it's very much a cultural thing. I grew up on Shaolin Temple - it's almost Quentin Tarrentino-like in heads-and limbs-ripped-off-with-exaggerated-blood-shooting-everywhere things. I was what... 6 years old or so when I started watching those. But man, simple kissing scene lasting more than 2 seconds... that gets edited out of TV. They get edited out of movies too. And language is all bleeped out - on TV or in the theater.

[Vort]

Portraying graphic violence does not tend to normalize graphic violence as much as portraying fornication tends to normalize fornication. That is, seeing someone kill another person is much less likely to make me go out and kill another person than seeing fornication is likely to make me go out and fornicate.

As a returned missionary, I was shocked to find that I reacted much more strongly (and negatively) to portrayals of violence than to nudity or portrayals of sex, even fornication. But I think my previous analysis is still valid. On a societal level, sex in media is far more damaging than violence.

[Lakumi]

I donno, two people having sex is far more natural then a guy walking threw a skyscraper and crushing a man's skull with his bare hand

[pam]

I donno, two people having sex is far more natural then a guy walking threw a skyscraper and crushing a man's skull with his bare hand

To me it's not really about what is natural. The sexual aspect in a movie would stay with me much longer than the violence part. It's human nature. It could easily lead my thoughts to places they should not be. And that's what we need to stay away from.

[Dravin]

Whether it be because of biology, society, or some other factor the conclusion of the impact seems to be the same.

Edit: I completely and utterly reconstructed my post because I realize it was based on some misunderstandings. My apologies to Pam if I edited the post out from under her after she thanked it.

Edited December 30, 2013 by Dravin

[Lakumi]

To me it's not really about what is natural. The sexual aspect in a movie would stay with me much longer than the violence part. It's human nature. It could easily lead my thoughts to places they should not be. And that's what we need to stay away from.

yeah some people are the opposite, but that's not the real point here.

I think its learning what resonates with your mind and what doesn't.

Learning to go the right path, and how you as a person can go down it.

[bytebear]

After seeing the last episode, I swear they found the most worldly LDS girls they could so they could show them immodest clothing and night clubbing.