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Originally Posted by Fignuts
Millions of people who don't do drugs, before the straight edge culture was even remotely popular.
That was because of parenting.
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Not always.
Punk himself has said that his reason for abstaining was the fear that he would turn out like his father. I don't think it had anything to do with parenting.
And to provide some anecdocal evidence (take it or leave it), my mother raised two children the same way. They were largely exposed to the same things. One abstained from such behaviors. The other didn't.
There's more than one factor involved, and it's idiotic to suggest that having Mom around to say Dont Do That is going to be why someone chooses not to do that.
You can tell me the WWE has no business monitoring their content for the sake of children watching. I disagree (on the basis of them directing their content towards those younger audiences), but that's one thing. You're telling me, in the quoted paragraph, that parenting is the ultimate counter to whatever drug/alcohol influences come out of the boob tube (Do people still use that phrase?).
I know you're smarter than that.
As a sidenote, I think it would be great if WWE stopped marketing towards that same younger audience and gave us Attitude-era programming. Then the problem wouldn't be as pronounced. But that's largely irrelevant to this topic.
Xero - Its not a matter of getting others to parent one's kids (at least, my argument isn't from that). While I think we can both agree on the ridiculousness of lawsuits demanding censorship (and reparations) for questionable content, I don't believe that parenting in itself is the be-all-end-all to the problems raised by said questionable content.
(As an aside, I've been here for nearly ten years, and I've only now hit post 2000. I think that says something, but I'm too lazy to figure it out. Happy 2000th, me!)