I Cast +5 To Censorship!!

Censorship is pretty much a normal way of life in U.S. broadcasting. Anime gets the full treatment when it comes to censorship. Blood, cursing, sexual references and cutting of the "good stuff" (the original things left in the uncut versions), are pretty much all absent when broadcasted. I don't know what the guidelines are for the cuts are, but let me ask this: isn't it true that you can't censor life? Obivously we cannot prevent children from seeing some of the things that are "cut out" of televison. I once heard a guy that was playing basketball yell out a huge atomic F-bomb in the middle of a public park, with children present. Just about the entire park went silent. I didn't see anybody "bleep" that out, but people were probably offended. Another thing, bloody noses, children get them; so why cut the blood out? (I'm looking at you American broadcast Naruto). All in all the purpose of censorship is to protect the innocence of children.

What we don't realize is that you can't always do that. Holden Caulfield saw this Catcher in The Rye, you can't protect the innocence of children. I've seen blood gush out of a body, heard a person at work string together a sentence with the f-word in almost 90 percent of the sentence, seen fights in school and sex in advertisements. I'm not saying lets rid the world of censorship and allow all the bad stuff into televison and everywhere, but just that eventually Children grow up. Their innocence broken and they realize that we live in a dirty world. I'd like to conclude with a line from C.I.T.R, "parents when children fall down, don't rush over and help them up. Let them pick themselves up and pull themselves back on their feet."