Blanket stating that anyone that has objected to the show is a jerk is pretty harsh. It's just as bad as if someone blanket stated that anyone that objected to them voicing their opinions about the airing of the show was a jerk.
I totally agree with you that the proper tact to take would be to change the channel, but honestly it sounds like you agree with censorship in just a different fashion. You'd rather censor the people who object rather than the people who are creating the shows. Everyone has a right to say how they feel about a television show. And the networks care about those opinions. Mind you, it's going to be the vast majority opinion they care about, which makes perfect sense. The more people that watch, the more sponsers they get. The more sponsers the more money. It's business. It makes perfect sense.
The people who decide to make it personal, condemn people to hell (like they have that sort of power, how conceited), point fingers and talk about how awful the people who watch and/or make the shows are, those people are truly jerks. And it seems like the majority (if not all) of the people you personally have come into contact with regarding the issue are those types.
But honestly, not everyone who decides to be vocal is a jerk. They are utilizing their right in this country to stand up and be counted for what they want. I guarantee that if a show was created that acted as if treating black people as slaves in modern times was natural and okay, people would raise an ever living stink. It would be all over the news and no one would call a single black person a jerk for being upset over it. The show would probably never make it to the air and very few people would be upset over the loss because it was going to obviously be offensive to a large group of people.
The difference here is that people who handle these religious situations wrongly are the loudest and most obnoxious. Just because they are jerks doesn't make the rest of them jerks. It just means they happen to be grouped together with the wrong people.
(On a sidebar, I feel bad for you that you are most comfortable as an agnostic. I honestly can't relate, but I can't imagine, especially in this nutso world, that it's got to be easy to be unsure of something that impactful. I hope, for your sake, that you are able to find a piece of faith in something to hold on to eventually.)
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I totally agree with you that the proper tact to take would be to change the channel, but honestly it sounds like you agree with censorship in just a different fashion. You'd rather censor the people who object rather than the people who are creating the shows. Everyone has a right to say how they feel about a television show. And the networks care about those opinions. Mind you, it's going to be the vast majority opinion they care about, which makes perfect sense. The more people that watch, the more sponsers they get. The more sponsers the more money. It's business. It makes perfect sense.
The people who decide to make it personal, condemn people to hell (like they have that sort of power, how conceited), point fingers and talk about how awful the people who watch and/or make the shows are, those people are truly jerks. And it seems like the majority (if not all) of the people you personally have come into contact with regarding the issue are those types.
But honestly, not everyone who decides to be vocal is a jerk. They are utilizing their right in this country to stand up and be counted for what they want. I guarantee that if a show was created that acted as if treating black people as slaves in modern times was natural and okay, people would raise an ever living stink. It would be all over the news and no one would call a single black person a jerk for being upset over it. The show would probably never make it to the air and very few people would be upset over the loss because it was going to obviously be offensive to a large group of people.
The difference here is that people who handle these religious situations wrongly are the loudest and most obnoxious. Just because they are jerks doesn't make the rest of them jerks. It just means they happen to be grouped together with the wrong people.
(On a sidebar, I feel bad for you that you are most comfortable as an agnostic. I honestly can't relate, but I can't imagine, especially in this nutso world, that it's got to be easy to be unsure of something that impactful. I hope, for your sake, that you are able to find a piece of faith in something to hold on to eventually.)