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What Is A Nanny State?

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  • #32
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    maggy_thatcher wrote: »
    Media restrictions:
    • The Irish Films Classification Office (the government decides what you can and cannot watch, and at what age you are allowed to experience it).
    • The watershed

    IFCO are no longer able ban films iirc, only rate them. As long as an adult goes with you you can watch higer rated films anyway can;t you?
    If fact last year it was changed from Censorship to Classification to reflect that

    The watershed is a sensilbe idea; would you like your kids watching some insane horror film or pornogaphic stuff at 3 in the afternoon?


  • #33
    maggy_thatcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭maggy_thatcher


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    IFCO are no longer ban films iirc, only rate them. As long as an adult goes with you you can watch higer rated films anyway can;t you?

    The watershed is a sensilbe idea; would you like your kids watching some insane horror film or pornogaphic stuff at 3 in the afternoon?

    IFCO do still ban things occasionally, and someone under 16 can't go in to see 16 or 18 rated films regardless of if they are accompanied (the equivalent to NC17 in the US).

    As for the watershed -- that's what parental locks are for. It should be up to the parent to decide what is/is not suitable for watching, not the government.

    Anyway - my point is that having these kind of restrictions is a form of nanny-statism. I didn't say necessarily that they are all bad (personally I like the smoking ban, but only for purely selfish reasons in that I don't smoke!)


  • #34
    Mr.Obvious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Mr.Obvious


    A nanny state is a state run by a person or group of people who display some degree of paternalism in their attitudes.

    These people generally see themselves as above the general population in some way (generally wisdom or intelligence) and assume that they are qualified enough to enforce certain life-choices on the population.

    A line typically use by such people is "We're protecting people from themselves". The term "nanny state" reffers to the adults in the population being treated like children (incapable of making their own decisions) rather than given the benifit of the doubt and treated as responsible adults.


  • #35
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    A Nanny State is any state run by or governed over by Fran Drescher.


  • #36
    IRockUrSocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭IRockUrSocks


    I'm all for liberalism.


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  • #37
    irish_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    Mr.Obvious wrote: »
    A nanny state is a state run by a person or group of people who display some degree of paternalism in their attitudes.

    These people generally see themselves as above the general population in some way (generally wisdom or intelligence) and assume that they are qualified enough to enforce certain life-choices on the population.

    A line typically use by such people is "We're protecting people from themselves". The term "nanny state" reffers to the adults in the population being treated like children (incapable of making their own decisions) rather than given the benifit of the doubt and treated as responsible adults.


    an example of this would be leftys who patronise so called socially disadvantaged people by claiming they are too poor to ever become better off so the state should continue to instead hand out wellfare to them


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