Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 02, 2004 04:51 AM
Why don't colleges teach everyone calculus first and then algebra? Because knowledge of algebra provides the tools and foundation to enbale understanding of calculus.
Yes, but then, no one would claim that it's good to block minors' access to WWW information about calculus...
Do you let your child drink alcoholic beverages? Why not? By your rules, as soon as they express an interest in whiskey or beer, you ought to give them some because otherwise you are not treating them as a person.
Should you buy your kid a bottle of booze as a birthday present? Of course not! But does it make sense to restrict their every access to small doses of alcohol whereever it may come from? Well, if you want your kid to hypercompensate like Jenna Bush, go ahead.
Filtering can help me control the when, where and how my children learn many things in life, sexual or otherwise.
It may be a good idea to watch the logfiles so that you know what content and when is blocked, so you can talk to your kids about the purpose of the filtering.
I would not allow some stranger to stand in my living room and display pictures or words of whatever HE feels like. But somehow I am a bad person if I filter the internet?
The Internet doesn't come over to your kid and forces him/her through all the information it has to offer. The WWW is essentially a book with countless pages - the viewer is in charge, not the presenter. Teach your children that every one of these pages is only a tiny slice of reality, and that to every opinion expressed there, there are counter-opinions. Tell them to be critical and take nothing for granted, especially not as representative for their own future. That's the most important thing to do, IMHO.
Have you talked to sex offenders in prison? I worked several years for a company that makes personality assessment tests for prisoners. Based on the statistics processed from those assessments, a large percentage of sex offenders had exposure to sexual content or conduct earlier in life than the general population.
Exposure to sexual content? How does this turn a person into criminal? Exposure to conduct? Umm, yes, because a large percentage of rapists and child molesters have been sexually abused in their childhood. Consensual sex does not make you a rapist, and I've never seen depictions of nonconsensual sex on the Internet (though I'm realistic enough to know that you could find it, if you were looking for it). Psychologists know that rape is much more about violence and humiliation than about sex. There was actually a pretty bad Russian serial killer who was impotent, so he raped his victims with a knife.
Complete isolation of children from all of reality is wrong. They will not be able to develop the skills needed when they reach adulthood.
Complete exposure of children to reality also wrong. They don't have the skills to correctly judge or apply the information they will be flooded with.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 02, 2004 04:51 AMWhy don't colleges teach everyone calculus first and then algebra? Because knowledge of algebra provides the tools and foundation to enbale understanding of calculus.
Yes, but then, no one would claim that it's good to block minors' access to WWW information about calculus...
Do you let your child drink alcoholic beverages? Why not? By your rules, as soon as they express an interest in whiskey or beer, you ought to give them some because otherwise you are not treating them as a person.
Should you buy your kid a bottle of booze as a birthday present? Of course not! But does it make sense to restrict their every access to small doses of alcohol whereever it may come from? Well, if you want your kid to hypercompensate like Jenna Bush, go ahead.
Filtering can help me control the when, where and how my children learn many things in life, sexual or otherwise.
It may be a good idea to watch the logfiles so that you know what content and when is blocked, so you can talk to your kids about the purpose of the filtering.
I would not allow some stranger to stand in my living room and display pictures or words of whatever HE feels like. But somehow I am a bad person if I filter the internet?
The Internet doesn't come over to your kid and forces him/her through all the information it has to offer. The WWW is essentially a book with countless pages - the viewer is in charge, not the presenter. Teach your children that every one of these pages is only a tiny slice of reality, and that to every opinion expressed there, there are counter-opinions. Tell them to be critical and take nothing for granted, especially not as representative for their own future. That's the most important thing to do, IMHO.
Have you talked to sex offenders in prison? I worked several years for a company that makes personality assessment tests for prisoners. Based on the statistics processed from those assessments, a large percentage of sex offenders had exposure to sexual content or conduct earlier in life than the general population.
Exposure to sexual content? How does this turn a person into criminal? Exposure to conduct? Umm, yes, because a large percentage of rapists and child molesters have been sexually abused in their childhood. Consensual sex does not make you a rapist, and I've never seen depictions of nonconsensual sex on the Internet (though I'm realistic enough to know that you could find it, if you were looking for it). Psychologists know that rape is much more about violence and humiliation than about sex. There was actually a pretty bad Russian serial killer who was impotent, so he raped his victims with a knife.
Complete isolation of children from all of reality is wrong. They will not be able to develop the skills needed when they reach adulthood.
Complete exposure of children to reality also wrong. They don't have the skills to correctly judge or apply the information they will be flooded with.
I agree 100%.
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