Wal-Mart Employee Demos TV With Porn

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If you were a REAL parent you wouldn't let your kid roam loose in Walmart...so assuming your kid was actually by your side you could steer them away from the loud moans emanating from the AV section right?

The FELONY charges these poor pranksters are facing are typical hypocritical fascist-lazy parenting-religious maniac zealotry.
 

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[citation][nom]mr_tuel[/nom]What's worse: the violence on everyday TV, or someone's penis?[/citation]
What's worse? Well It seems people were forced to watch this. I was under the impression you can turn your TV off.

That and I could argue porn and violence don't have the same effects (which they DON'T) So..

Did you even think this statement through...at all?
 
concerned citizen... +1 for effort.

If parents would actually give a damn then there wouldn't be such a big fuss about tv violence, druge use, and sex. Most parents would rather let the rating systems protect their children for them. I suppose I'm a rarity in that my parents discussed such topics with me as a child. As such, they really didnt mind what I saw. There is no way that a parent is going to prevent a child from seeing violence, drug use, sexual acts, and hearing profane words. Any person can speak out that the kids and posters are immoral pigs, however it takes real balls to actually speak with your children on such matters.

I'll admit this: it was a bit immature to play porn on the walmart tvs. However, realize that they are still rather young and did not give much thought to their actions. It is not the end of the world. Being brought up on charges probably also has them witless. In any case, think on the bright side.. bad press for walmart.
 
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Maybe if the porn industry were able to edit the white human fluid out of their product it could also make day time TV....... PBS here we cum.
 

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Ummmm This thread going way off topic about issues of porn industry et al, that i think we are forgetting that this is a Major Corporation selling a product with Huge face value and a Code Of Company Conduct was broken which embarrassed the company and upset customers, thus the uproar.
Getting Fired, logical course of action, getting arrested, ooooo burn that sucks. Course you don't go showing porn to a minor (says so in the law books) and Walmart has minors. In fact if its like most stores, the children's cloths are right across the isle as well as the baby stuff.
*Former wal-mart employee, I wasn't allowed to showcase any movie other than something rated G. There are times where I went to a manager to show something PG like Pirates of the Caribbean and even then I considered it a public risk
 
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these guys should be given a medal not be punished they have done a service to all mankind
 
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tayb: I assume you'd still be cool with showing children a movie where people are getting killed, or letting kids play very violent video games. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with 2 consenting adults having sex, maybe this country would be better off if we stopped demonizing that kind of behaviour, and started demonizing violence instead.

I personally dislike kids and don't want any, but if I ever wind up having one, I'm never telling him/her that Santa, The Tooth Fairy or Jesus are real, and I'll try to teach him/her that violence is NOT cool, but other than that, let them see the entire world and pass his/her own judgement, rather than sheltering him/her, just so he/she can just go bat-shit crazy when he/she/it goes off to college.
 

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[citation][nom]welshmousepk[/nom]its fine for the tv screens at wal mart to show people getting killed left right and center (yes, thye do show that). i find it ridiculous that we as a society feel the need to 'protect' our children from sex, yet allow them to see gratuitious violence and remorseless killing on day time TV. no wonder kids are getting pregnant and beating each other up all the time.[/citation]

You are right, it's ok showing Stalonne killing 150 bad guys with extreme close-up scenes, but showing anything beside the belt is... pure evil...

As I know, we are all coming to this world the same way. Not that I approve porn, I think it's a real problem, but seeing religious believes serving us some stupid morality toward sex really piss me off.
 
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I blame it on the puritans. They were the uptight mo-fo's that helped perpetuate the anti-obscenity laws. If it wasn't for them, this nation would be more advanced, and better off, not to mention these poor employees would be free to commit harmless acts of humor.
 

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To those who see no distinction between violence and sex in the media: you're missing a major point. Think about this - violence such as attacking or killing another person is something that is illegal in real life. If viewed on TV or in a movie, however, it's reasonable for a person to believe that what they're viewing is staged or not real. After all, they're only actors on the screen. Nudity or sex presents a whole new problem. Public nudity/sex is clearly something that is illegal...just try walking around downtown in your birthday suit and you'll find that out in a hurry. What happened in the Walmart incident is essentially equivalent to public nudity/sex. There were naked people on the screen that anyone (including children) could view. Unlike depictions of violence, there is no such thing as "fake" nudity. That is why this was wrong and why the two 20-year olds were arrested accordingly for it. To say that showing a program depicting violence and one depicting nudity or sex are no different means you haven't thought through the relevant issues long enough.
 

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[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]The remarks here show pretty frighteningly how stupid the average reader is.Someone thinks they are so important, and so cool, that they break societal laws, offend people, and possibly subject their employer to lawsuits, and people think they're great people and deserve credit? That's self-indulgent stupidity. It's not cool, maybe a little funny, but it's just people not caring about others, being offensive, and wanting attention. It's not even clever; everyone's thought about it. This is not the making of a hero, or worth anything more than contempt.People have always been stupid, at least a lot of them. Now they get to post on forums. I doubt this is progress.[/citation]


Take your shity goody two shoe somewhere else. I, and most other people, don't give a rats ass about who offends who and what society thinks. All this ultra liberalism and extreme political correctness is a real pain in the ass. It's a damn shame those boys are charged with a felony. I am sure with a good lawyer, and if they are first time offenders, they will get a slap on a wrist, a medium size fine plus community service. And again really to you and others who said that pull that jagged stick out of your ass and laugh for first time. Might make you feel good. Things like this don't happen much, a little laughter is healthy.
 
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