Age of Consent

I do not think that there should be universal laws that say how old a person must be before they can watch certain movies or be exposed to certain things. However, I also do think that there are things that are inappropriate for children to see. For this reason I do not know what I would propose to the conflict of having age restrictions for different types of media. I agree with Missy that each individual has different levels of exposure and tolerance for different topics. Then with having rules we cannot accomodate different levels of tolerance. However, if there are no restrictions whatsoever, children would have a freedom to access media that they might not be appropriate. As individuals, children do not always make informed decisions becuase they are children and they are not mature. That is why it is the responsibility of the parents to teach their children and not let them do whatever they want as well as not let them be completely sheltered. Then this goes into the issue of parenting which is completely different from media censorship. So I don't know if there could be a compromise for censorship of media. But I don't think we should have universal age restrictions or no censorship at all.