My one and only question when I read this was…

…have you seen Brokeback Mountain? =P

I don’t know about that.

Watching violence in a movie or tv doesn’t make me wish I was in the middle of it or participating in any way. It doesn’t give me the urge to go out and start killing random people on the street.

However, The more sexual content in a movie or tv show, the more the natural man inside me wishes he could participate.

I think if you are evaluating it from that standpoint, one could argue that that the PG-13, sexually charged show is “Worse”.

Who knows, there may be people out there that get the same arrousal from violence. I’d specualte they are in the minority.

Have you really thought about what you are saying? As I understand your comment, you are saying you feel watching R rated violent movies is more ethical than PG-13 movies that portray morally questionable characters or sexual content.

I’m not sure the real impact of either such movie, (and by way of disclosure I’ve watched plenty of both varieties) but I think there is something to be said for rating graphic violence as “worse for you” than sexual/morally questionable content.

You’ve yet to explain how that differs from a movie critic (who could be your brother or friend at work) viewing the same movie and providing to you insights as to its content.

Actually, I did provide at least one reason. See #8. But here’s one more reason. There’s a difference between using the information from a review to avoid watching a film at all, and another thing to directly pay someone to watch the content for you, so you can watch part of the film while avoiding the content you just paid the person to watch and delete.

Imagine someone standing before god at the final judgment, they are asked to explain their viewing of certain films. They reply, “Oh, but I didn’t watch that part.” It seems a little ridiculous to me.