Posted by Robert Dilley on 12/21/99 from geog-rc2006f.lakeheadu.ca:
In Reply to: Regulated Almost Out Of Existence posted by Mike Field on December 20, 1999 at 10:02:41:
For those who didn't see the short piece in Time recently, there was an excellent example of regulation gone mad. It seems that a cartoon was made with Donald and Daisy Duck whitewater rafting. At one point they get tossed out into the water. Up reared the behavioural correctness brigade in Disney. They stopped production of the movie and summoned the scriptwriters for a carpeting. "Why" they thundered "were Donald and Daisy not wearing regulation life jackets? What kind of example are we in Disney setting?" After a long pause, one writer hesitantly suggested: "Because they're ducks?"
More generally, we have visited before in this forum the point that the world now is not the world in was in AR's day (re racist overtones, for instance). I still say that the only instance that causes me a little (only a little) unease is the arrow-firing in SA, and it is easy to explain that as a bit of carelessness, and not evil with intent: comparable to sailing in the dark, for instance. If kids today were exposed to no more violence than that in AR, we might all be a good deal happier!