[Tom4784]

I thought, why not join the trend!

Media = Violence?
This is something that has always annoyed me, when people say 'that film is too violent, it will make people think it's OK to hurt people 'Games train children to kill' ETC. I think that placing the blame at the media's door for a rise in violence is wrong. It's just creating a scapegoat and not dealing with the problem. If someone goes out and stabs somebody to death I doubt very much that GTA drove them to do it, nobody can be influenced to hurt or kill anyone it has to be within them to do it.

The Next American President
I support Barrack Obama, I think it's great how he plans to tackle the real problems in America such as poverty, gun crime and people dropping out of school. I think he can truly help make a better America. I'm not against Hillary Clinton per se, it's just I read a lot about how she wants to create a 'family-based' america by restricting access to mature films, games, TV shows ETC and since I'm a media student and i'm generally very interested in media anyway. I think it's wrong to restrict these things as everyone has a right to show their creativity in these different platforms if they want, it's up to the audience to decide to watch it or not and not just alienate thousands of people without families because somebody is frightened of what Timmy might be watching.

The Next Prime Minister
It's an awful bunch, so i'm not taking part in any voting since i think all the candidates are no good.

Burma
I think it's horrific what has happened and the fact that the burmese government is refusing help. People are dying and are in desperate need of help, the government should put it's differences aside and accept outside help, the people should always be a first priority for any government.

Drugs
I really don't like drugs at all, My uncle was a drug addict who died of an overdose last year. He overdosed on heroin I think and he is the reason I'm against drugs. I hated him in life, his drug habbit nearly destroyed the family. He stole, he lied and he even attacked my cousin (Who was 10 at the time) in hopes of stealing his birthday money. He was despicable. I'm against drugs because it's so incredibly selfish, Drug addicts put their families and people who care about them through so much pain.

I know some drugs like marijuana and the like aren't that dangerous and i can see the reasons why people want to legalise it but with my uncle and the druggies i knew at school ETC is that it always starts with small stuff and that they go on to stuff like cocaine and ecstasy. I think that as long as you're careful marijuana is just about acceptable in my books but like i said before, in my experiences people always goes on to crave more.

I'd never preach to someone and i'd never tell anyone what they should or should not do since I believe people need to make their own mistakes in life and learn from them, so if someone wants to take drugs then i think they should do what they want. I'm not sure if that makes me a hypocrite but oh well my views on drugs are complicated to explain.

Finally, I do believe this is my longest post ever and sorry for the wall of text!