Unfortunately it’s not always the case but we have a lot of safeguards in place to address the exceptions, no system is perfect but I’d rather err on the side of parental rights and address the outliers individually than make blanket rules that take away the rights of decent parents to make decisions for their children.
I was generally not allowed to see R Rated movies when I was young… sometimes after my parents watched such a film before hand I would be allowed… I remember my mom deciding I could watch Beverly Hills cop the next day after watching a rental the night before
I don’t know that things were better in the past:
Honestly, the last few pages of this thread seem almost upside down to me. In my experience, it’s normally right-leaning people who argue that parents should have the last say and left-leaning people who argue the opposite. The former viewpoint does not seem newfangled to me.
To my mind, a blanket rule that prevents parents from taking their children to the cinema to see age-inappropriate films would not be taking away their rights (or at least any right they should be entitled to in the first place). It’s insane to me that it’s legal in the US for six-year-olds to accompany their parents to screenings of films like Evil Dead Rise. Quite apart from the harm it can do to the children themselves, the last thing I want is to be sharing my space with kids while watching such material. It’s just inappropriate all around.
There is a difference in my mind between those two situations, but this is not the time or the place for that topic as had been decided by the Mods.
And what if my 6 yr old for example is more mature then the average 6 year old? For example what if my 6 yr old is not in K/1st but actually already in an higher grade because they are advanced and gifted? Is that appropriate because they are far beyond their physical age?
I don’t want anyone’s six-year-old next to me while hearing jokes about pegging. I don’t care how precocious they are.
And I appreciate your opinion, only thing I can suggest is that you move seats if that were to happen in the US.
Exactly, it used to be that Right leaning were the people of "personal responsibility", that changed decades ago.
Thankfully, in all my years of living in the US, I’ve never myself experienced it. My partner, who’s American, actually didn’t believe me when I told him children were allowed accompanied into R-rated movies. From the perspective of those not used to such a system (a system that allows six-year-olds to watch a girl stabbing her genitalia with a crucifix), it’s frankly bonkers.
Can’t really get into this because it’s political but both sides are guilty of this, just depends on the issue. In many cases the right champion parental rights and the left try to take them away, in many cases the left champion parental rights and the right try to take them away, there’s very little black and white in American politics, both parties frequently flip flop to mirror their ideologies.
That’s an easy out (“They wouldn’t get the joke anyway”), but depictions of sex and violence certainly wouldn’t go over their heads.
Those examples you gave have laws attached to them, this is not the case with movie viewing thankfully. But if there was a law preventing it in the US, I would obey it. But until then its up to parental discretion here in the US on taking their kids to R rated movies.
Too lazy to Google, but what’s the Canadian system like?This is why I try and go to the VIP Cineplex. 19+
