Jumpstartme2 opened this issue on Nov 03, 2005 ยท 49 posts
lemur01 posted Sun, 06 November 2005 at 12:35 PM
Of course children should be allowed in the forums So by this, you mean that children should also be allowed to view nudity? No, I mean that if parents dont want their children to view nudity they should not allow them access to a site where nudity is on view. Once again, it is the PARENTS responsibility. Personally, I have no problems with my own children viewing simple nudity. I accept that some parents do and I have no argument with this. However, it is up to those parents that DO have a problem to take steps to prevent their children from seeing it. It is not the sites responsibility. This particular site has discharged its responsibility by making it clear that children under 15 must have written permission to view. I dont believe that anyone is asking members to do anything {they cant anyway as far as programming goes} but check a box when something contains nudity. Thats all members are 'required' to do.. It IS a small thing and if Renderosity requires it I will do it. But why should I have to? Its not my responsibility to help anyone bring their child up within their own standards of moral acceptability. I am a parent. While my children are growing up and in my care it is up to me to protect them from things that I consider harmful. If I thought that seeing pictures on a website of people sans clothing was harmful to them I would deny them access to that site. What I would NOT do is expect that site to change its policies, its programming and even its members attitudes to fall in line with what I consider right and proper. To expect a site to do this is, in my opinion, lazy parenting. Its like allowing a child to pet strange dogs and then demanding all dogs to be muzzled in case the child gets bitten.