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Wouldn't it make sense to just teach the children that many people accept these words as bad, and leave it at that? Why censor vast amounts of content(I would imagine most of the best Minecraft videos for instance wouldn't be PG) based on language used.


"In a classic study, Cialdini and colleagues manipulated the signs that were displayed in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, a site often plagued by tourists who end up grabbing some of the petrified wood to take home as a souvenir. In situations like this, the first inclination of well-meaning environmentalists might be to set a strong prescriptive norm — perhaps by saying something like, 'Many past visitors have removed the petrified wood from the park, changing the state of the Petrified Forest. This is bad, don’t do this.' The idea here would be to invoke a sense of shame and severity before asking visitors to refrain from taking the wood. But read that prescriptive message once again. Is there anything descriptive in there? Yes, of course there is. That message is not just telling you that you shouldn’t take the wood — it’s also telling you that most other people do. In fact, people were actually more likely to steal wood from the forest when they saw the sign telling them how many people tend to do it themselves, even though the very next sentence was asking them to refrain. But when the researchers simply tweaked the message to read that 'the vast majority of past visitors have left the petrified wood in the park, helping to preserve the natural state of the Petrified Forest,' the thievery plummeted. [1]

Not a parent, but I would guess that kids are the same way only more so. The smart parent will make sure their kid sees other well-behaved kids most of the time.

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/03/28/ma...


> Wouldn't it make sense to just teach the children that many people accept these words as bad, and leave it at that?

I'm pretty sure kids don't think about the way other people perceive things until much older than 8-9.


If true, that's very interesting. Source?


It's actually quite a bit earlier than 8, but you can't really put a date on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind#Development


They might not properly understand why it's bad to say those things until ~13 due to a lack of abstract thinking, which might be what the above poster was getting at.


Well, because there are videos by other people who do not use excessive curse words. If there are alternatives, why not prefer them?

Now, if this were the parent blocking their child from viewing any Minecraft video because the majority of them include some cursing, it would be a bit different.


In my experience the Youtube/gaming videos default is not kid-friendly. If that's the case, then your kid will be getting less quality content for what I believe is basically no fair reason.


There are many Minecraft youtube videos that are PG with no swearing.

These cover the wide range of technical builds with redstone; creative builds; roleplay style; regular Let's Plays, everything.

I understand why parents don't like swearing in videos. Personally, I'm more concerned about hateful attitudes than just swearing.




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