Why do you always come across as so angry and tense?
Because you refuse to acknowledge your double standards.
If you do not realize the difference, I don't know what to say. I had pegged you as smarter than that.
Merely because you wish them to be different does not equate to them being different.
Not sure what you mean by "offensive", but isn't it mostly already banned?
There's the kicker. What is offensive? And to whom?
Except that some of those arguments might actually be valid.
Some? Who gets to define that? Furthermore, once we start, how do we stop? What is offensive to whom? Who decides?
To you, everything is a hypocritical position, so yes, it kind of is your fault.
Taking arguments from Mr. V is generally a bad idea considering his track record.
Except there is. As I have pointed out multiple times, one situation is about personal preference, while the other is about what one's child is able to see. But please ignore that essential difference.
Except that the child is also able to hear the loud commercial as well. Furthermore, it is your personal preference as to what you do not want your child to see and here. Thus, both are personal preferences. There is no essential difference other then your double standard.
Because in one situation, since it's not about you, you're not always there to turn the TV off or switch channels, and a lot more damage can be done in the short amount of time before one does.
Come again? How is that not applicable to both? And it is YOUR personal preference as to what you want your child exposed to.
Still ignoring many key differences here.
What key difference? It is YOUR personal preference for what you want your kids exposed to and YOUR personal preference as to the volume of the commercials.
Like I said earlier, saying that it's okay because you can just change the channel is like saying that underage smoking should be legal because all parents have to do is not buy cigarettes.
I'm not saying it's okay. What I'm saying is that the argument you present is very uneven. Complaining about government regulation on the basis that people are free to rectify the situation on their own when it comes to loud commercials but not applying the
same thinking when it comes to things you may find offensive on broadcast is a hypocritical stance. Basically your argument is little more then "I don't like this, therefore regulate, but I don't mind that, therefore don't regulate" when both are nothing more then your own preferences.
"Why not let the free market decide who gets to smoke?"
Sure. As long as those who are smoking are informed of the risks.
I gotta wonder how you go through life seeing hypocrisy with every turn.
Everyone is a hypocrite. Some are just worse then others.
It must be great, you seeing this vast, massive hypocrisy that nobody else has had the brains to realize. You must be the smartest person in the world or something.
Again, Mr. V doesn't win any arguments with those lines, so copying them from him generally isn't suggested.