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Old 06-18-2010, 05:49 AM   #6
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Cigarettes and beer? What about a dwarf burying an axe in an Orcs head? What about Beorn the bear ripping off arms and legs? Decapitations, disembowelments, limb shivering, bone crushing, trepanning.

Oh, that's right. Adolescents don't become over-aggressive by being exposed to violent imagery, but they immediately start smoking as soon as a cig is lit.

Priorities.
I don't mind a bit of violence in entertainment, considering a) the lifestyle of those who dislike western civilization (Chesty Puller had a surprisingly profound quote about this) and b) the extreme and, well, loony pendulum swing in the opposite direction at our zero-tolerance-embracing public schools.
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