I have an article in _Filipinas_ magazinie that quotes [I can't cite, maybe it was People magazine] statistics such that Filipino Americans are the ethnic group [of all ethnic groups including the majority group] with the least amount of members classified as living in poverty as a percentage of the group. We live in the same country you do.
[Boss that's non sequitir] Yeah, shaddup, maybe no one will notice. What I mean is, I grew up seeing Road Runner and Speed Racer and there were very very violent and graphic films during my childhood that I could have seen, if I had wanted to [_Psycho_ is scary but not graphic]. Kids in the provinces in the Philippines watch live slaughter of pigs and chickens ["Look at all the blood!"] Big deal -- it's how you're taught to consume the experience of violence and subsume violent tendencies [Filipinos can be very violent]. Jeroen is discussing violence in context with its use as an act of morality. That's fine. But he also wants to prevent kids from seeing its use as an act of morality. I think that's way bad. If anything, you should increase violence being shown to kids, both in the moral sense, good and bad, and in the impersonal sense, which is good or not bad [good because pigs are nutritious, not bad because even if the pig has feelings it must die for our sake]. However you must also at the same time impress upon the kids the importance of not doing violence if it is not necessary. It is never fun to kill. It may be enjoyable. I don't know how this shed's light on the hobby of hunting, there's some shading of meaning here, I suspect. A little counter violence, physical and verbal, may be in order, as something an adult does for the child, even if it really hurts the adult more than it hurts the child [ahem].
