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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What 8-year-old is reading any Orwell? You're talking about something that is probably an issue for .00001% of people at that age. Like 3 or 4 prodigies. So why do these bans which, again, do not differentiate between 7 and 17, need to be in place?

Also, where are the parents of these 8-year-olds? Shouldn't they be aware of what their child is getting from the library?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It sounds like we're talking cross purposes now. I don't know what children are reading Orwell. Not like in the comic, I imagine. For that matter, I hope most children are not, in fact, seeing videos of cats being killed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Kids are seeing a hell of a lot more violent videos than they are reading Orwell. That was even true when I was a kid in the 80s. I saw every Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th movie that came out while I was in elementary school.

Amazingly, it didn't leave me horribly scarred.