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The controversial show about teen suicide millions of your friends on Twitter are talking about is getting increased content warnings.
The move is the latest in the conversation about the Netflix original program "13 Reasons Why", coming as a response to the backlash and concern about the show's suitability for young viewers.
The streamer released a statement Monday promising to "add an additional viewer warning card before the first episode." It has also "strengthened the messaging and resource language in the existing cards for episodes that contain graphic subject matter, including the URL 13ReasonsWhy.info."
Mental health organisations in Australia reported increased calls and emails since the program's launch in March. In April, New Zealand's classification body ruled that Netflix would have to display a clear warning for the entire series as well as individual episodes, branding it with the region's first ever RP18 rating. The new classification -- created for the program -- recommends people under the age of 18 watch the program only under the supervision of a parent or guardian.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @04:55AM (6 children)
What right do you have to control what somebody else does with their body?
How, exactly, did we get from extra warnings at the start of a show to "controlling" somebody else's body?
You right-wingers make the weirdest equivalencies.
In the USA, everybody is free to kill themselves. They aren't always free to have someone else help them.
But that's not same thing as "controlling" their body.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:34PM (5 children)
I'm not sure I exactly agree with the argument (and if I did that would make me the opposite of a right-winger...), but that's the wording a lot of people use when they talk about abortion. "You not allowing me to do anything I want with it is controlling my body!"
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday May 05 2017, @08:12AM (4 children)
but that's the wording a lot of people use when they talk about abortion. "You not allowing me to do anything I want with it is controlling my body!"
I agree that's always a silly line to use, but you've not explained why.
It seems to me that when pro-choice people use that line, they're just betraying their failure to understand their opponent's stance. Pro-lifers (mistakenly) believe that a bundle of cells in a uterus has a moral right to life in the same way a fully-grown human does. Given that belief (and ignoring for now the 'Defence of Abortion' [wikipedia.org] argument that applies even if we grant that belief), it's not unreasonable to want to ban abortion.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 05 2017, @03:05PM (3 children)
It seems to me that when pro-choice people use that line, they're just betraying their failure to understand their opponent's stance.
Oh, absolutely.
Pro-lifers (mistakenly) believe that a bundle of cells in a uterus has a moral right to life in the same way a fully-grown human does.
Well let me put the question to you this way: At what point between the bundle of cells and "fully-grown" (itself a rather fuzzy term) are we talking about a human life?
I'm not asking you to agree with me, but I'm incredulous you completely deny that there's a debate on this and believe you're objectively correct.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday May 05 2017, @03:19PM (2 children)
I'm pretty sure I'm correct that the morning-after pill isn't murder, yes. About as sure as I am of anything.
Exactly where you draw the line is a legitimate question, and that's really what the whole debate boils down to, but some answers to this question are clearly absurd.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 05 2017, @03:47PM (1 child)
It's complicated by apparently the MAP and "the abortion pill" being two separate things. https://www.verywell.com/the-morning-after-pill-vs-the-abortion-pill-906574 [verywell.com]
I would hope that even people who argue that life starts at conception wouldn't oppose the use of contraceptives that prevent fertilization or kill sperm or unfertilized eggs. But we all know how the Catholic Church feels about contraception whatsoever, so hey :P
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday May 05 2017, @08:33PM
Different pills are just details really, what's morally salient is stage-of-development.