Recent new headlines are reoprting that a 15-year-old boy who murdered his mother with a hammer and set her body on fire has been detained for a minimum of 16 years.
The court heard he had been particularly interested in a Coronation Street storyline involving the character John Stape, wherein he had murdered a woman with a hammer and then left her body in the wreckage of a tram crash. It was also revealed the boy had been watching violent horror films since he was eight and had viewed the film Saw hours before killing his mother.
Children frequently mimic the actions of people that they admire which is all part of learning how to deal with various situations in life. The problem arises when children are not provided with sufficient moral guidance and clear definitions of what is right and wrong. This is not the first time that a child has imitated something that they have seen on tv and in films with devaststing consequences.
There are a multitude of pictures, films and videos which children see which are packed with death and gruesome scenes of violence and viscious brutality. These visual scenes are seldom banned but are usually age restricted but that doesn't guarantee that children under the prescribed age won't view them.
What I don't understand is that violence & murder seems to be acceptable for an age restricted audience but non-sexual nudity & naturism is not acceptable for any audience.
To my knowledge there has never been a case of anyone suffering injury or death as a result of anyone mimicking the activity of naturists, so I cannot comprehend why nudity should be banned when it's a perfectly natural state.
I cannot understand why people pay good money to view images or violence, gore and human suffering yet these same people express shock and horror that naturists shed their clothes and enjoy being naked which is perfectly natural.
It seems that the horrors in life are socially acceptable but the natural naked body is not. Has the world gone mad, why does society accept gruesome suffering yet not accept the natural beauty of the naked human form.
