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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 768101" data-attributes="member: 1710">Ah well, I've officially been dragged back in.First I'd like to thank SHARK for bringing some much needed dignity and common sense to this thread. Congratulations.Now, on to business. My niece also happens to be my goddaughter, and since we only live a few minutes apart I see both her and her brother quite often. I cranked her swing when she was an infant, and I listen to her talk about her homework now. My guess is I know her quite well, and certainly better than you do.She's been in a local musical, Brownies, Soccer, Softball, a cheerleading camp, etc. She has traveled to quite a few places with her family. Heck, she's more well rounded and has done more than I have. She's seen the print on my wall, and no doubt the art of the old masters in text books (if the school texts haven't been sanitized to utter uselessness yet) and she has not been "damaged" because of this. On the contrary, she is a happy and healthy young girl with a friends and drive.My point? Maybe when you are brought up well, with a strong moral compass, seeing a drawing that shows less skin than most bathing suits doesn't make that much difference. Why should it? And after all, it's not the job of Paizo to raise someone else's children and/or shield them from things. If the cover doesn't meet your standards of "child-safety" then don't let them see it. It's that simple. Same thing goes for the television, music, movies and whatever. It's the parents responsibility and should not be foisted off on the rest of society. Hello, video games?It's funny that the most vocal of parents scream bloody murder about what they see as damaging to children, like video games and movies... drawings; But the really damaging things like the constant teasing and putting down that happens in schools is ignored, because the parents don't see it, and the teachers are too tired to do anything. I guess my priorities are different.You don't put a blindfold on a child and then send them out into the world, you teach them right from wrong, what to avoid. You give them the tools to live a good life. Maybe so many people like the blindfold because that's how they were raised. What has it gotten us so far?In my days I have seen plenty of nudity, and a lot of violence. I still enjoy a good nude, I still hate violence. After more than two and a half decades on this spinning chunk of rock I have not been desensitized, and I still care.Note: Anyone who tries to take what I wrote and say that I advocate bombarding two year-olds with porn will be slapped down by the righteous hand of common sense. You know darn well what I said.</blockquote>

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