Any content that could be considered offensive can be excluded by the viewer and is not imposed on him in any way. Religious groups feel the need to impose their ideas on the world and remove everything against them from the media. The fact that organizations are able to successfully censor the media and create nationwide controversy over images like The Insurgent's mediocre comics amazes me. These groups think that because they are offended, everyone is offended, and therefore anything offensive to anyone must be destroyed. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who attempts to censor anything in the media, for religious purposes or otherwise, is performing a selfish act that directly degrades the work of an artist that other people might enjoy seeing. That's like saying that because I don't like tomatoes, I will destroy all the tomato crops in Oregon and make sure tomatoes are banned from television and advertising. No one will ever eat or see a tomato because of me. But that doesn't make sense, does it? Millions of people like tomatoes. So why is it acceptable to ban everyone else from seeing a certain image or hearing a certain song if only one group of people is offended? My advice is to those who are offended by an image, movie or video game to stop worrying. Look away; change channels; turn the page. There are more important things we as a nation should be worried about than a religious figure being vilified or a kid shooting terrorists on his PlayStation. Just deal with it, let it be
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