We won't win the culture war with this shit.
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What gets me is these puritan types love censorship and they love to push their way of life on others.
'Won't someone think of the children' is all well and good but they want to kill adulthood for it.
We've made it so no business ever can have smoking, we've taken guns from the public, drugs are illegal and makes a drug war that kills more innocents.
And people wonder why there's so much arrested development, what's the point of being an adult if you can't act like one?
This is a complicated topic where you have to straddle a VERY fine line between doing what's good for society (banning propagation and advertisement of homosexuality, or any form of sexuality or sexual content in public really, online porn, etc.) and going into overboard puritan mode (kill the gays, everything in existence is evil, you're all going to hell for breathing wrong, but I won't give you a solution to any of this. Instead, I'll just point and judge without ever once offering to introduce you to Jesus).
I'm more of the former type. I do believe SOME form of censorship is required, but not a blanket style censorship. Adults are adults and can make their own decisions. What they do is between them and God. But we DO need to shield our children from negative outside influences. Not doing so for several generations is what has resulted in the current mess we're experiencing.
As I said, this is a complicated topic, and both "extreme" sides are equally unreasonable as far as I'm concerned. This is one of those topics where the answer is a solid middle ground between the two. This generally applies to most of the stuff you've listed. If you want to smoke, have a smoking section. If you want to carry guns in public, do so. If not, then don't.
The one topic you mentioned thus far I don't really think applies to is the drugs part, but that's mainly because 95%+ of the illegal drug industry is fueled and run by the CIA or their proxies, so once they're cleaned up, that will almost certainly dry up.
We have the solution for censorship for children. The internet is the solution.
You need a credit card to prove adulthood and you get access to see everything.
But companies like YouTube seem to refuse the idea of making adults pay a one time fee to prove adulthood with a credit card. Instead they implement bullshit ESG censorship.