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Is watching TV unethical?

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Posted 11/04/09 - 10:41 AM:	#21
By these standards today's TV is really unethical.
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Posted 11/04/09 - 12:10 PM:	#22
And FYI I would be extremely happy if people could keep those standards in that short clip.
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Posted 11/04/09 - 03:28 PM:	#23
This is what you should do with your TV
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Posted 11/05/09 - 08:32 AM:	#24
Hi, Surely its a matter of what you get out of it and what it costs you. If by watching the telly you gain insight, education and some entertainment that that would seem perfectly ethical from a personal point of view. But if what you get is fat, lazy and indoctrinated into unwholesome views of society then that would be perfectly unethical to watch it. Thus I think we can conclude that watching telly is ethical as long as Star Trek is playing! Cheers.

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1 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 11/05/09 - 03:58 PM:	#25
Star Trek is propaganda.
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Posted 11/05/09 - 05:28 PM:	#26
keda wrote: Star Trek is propaganda. We agree on something, though probably for entirely different reasons.
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Posted 11/05/09 - 05:43 PM:	#27
keda wrote: Star Trek is propaganda. Why?
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Posted 11/05/09 - 06:03 PM:	#28
Willowz wrote: Why? I'd say that any attempted intellectual message delivered through an entertainment, exaggerated, and fictional medium is propaganda. Also because of their terrible, nightmarish vision of a uniform, dissent, and individual free communist utopia. Data was cool though. Edited by Wosret on 11/05/09 - 08:41 PM. Reason: Nod to my boy, Data.
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Posted 11/05/09 - 09:46 PM:	#29
But that's like saying that everything anyone says is bias to his own POV and propaganda. Things would get really boring if everyone had a similar POV on one topic.
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Posted 11/05/09 - 09:52 PM:	#30
Willowz wrote: But that's like saying that everything anyone says is bias to his own POV and propaganda.
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