just out of curiousity i figured id ask

I voted TV for brain rotting power, internet is a fun place that corrupts your mind and rapes your childhood should you stumble across porn...ahh fascinating world we live in

Pie

How does pie rot your brain? its a magical substance like crack cocaine...no...scratch that last bit

you never know what can be in pie....or cookies...

Ok before I answer, are you asking about corruptive power or brain rotting power? Your poll contradicts your description cause they're two very different things...

the power it has to corrupting your brain allows it for you to be obsessed with it there by slowly rotting your brain with what could be used for more important things. Next question

Nuh uh...brain rot turns your brain to mush...
Corruption turns people into us >.>

question: what does most of the internet consist of?

Half porn and the other half already corrupted people

and porn does what? exactly so enough bickering!

The internet is a magical place porn, crack pot conspiracy theory, mmo's, sexual health forums(great laugh should read them sometime, porn, illegal downloading(no point going shhh its easier to find than an honest politician lol), funny pics and videos, web comics, porn, social networking sites for those who love to stalk people, forums similar to latter but nowhere near as extreme, porn, scams, hackers, did i mention porn? i dare say it includes both brain rotting potential and corruption but the tv still excels in brain rot

I'm not bickering

Besides, based on what you just implied I could say something, but I won't cause I'm too nice

ive been bickering all week. i know what it is. your doing it. enough.

Either, neither or both.

The fact is that most people in our society are either so close minded that nothing ever, ever penetrates their skull or so determined to be open-minded things dribble out faster than they can be put in. Kinda like a hole in a bucket where the bucket is now more hole than bucket.

Depends on what you access through the TV or Internet. Both have good and bad content.

Kinda like the saying about guns: It's how you use them that determines if they're good or bad. The same can be said for knives, paint thinner, almost anything.

I'm sure someone could find a deadly use for a piece of buttered toast....
But anyhow I voted pie but really I believe that the Internet is potentially much more detrimental to a child's development and it is an enabler to the cult of instant gratification which I myself unfortunately belong to.

I think that both are equal, as noth are wide spread, and for the most part, easaly accessed. In most countries, people can easily walk into and house hold and find both a tv and a computer, both on, and but corupting in some way or another.

Freedom of speech does exist on the internet, albeit in a twisted form. TV is never independent, you're not allowed to contribute anything until the big guys lend their approval. THus, the internet is not just "not corruptive", it's actually good.

I watch tv episodes online (not hulu due to commercials) so I don't have to deal with the advertisements. Does that count?

I suppose it counts as internet...

4chan.

Depending on your cable/satellite subscription, you can find movies and shows which are just as bad as 4chan. Some of the titles that pop up when scrolling through the pay-per-view channels don't leave much to the imagination.

Well, they usually aren't quite as banal and brainless as 4chan...

definately right. Makes it really hard to tell which one's worse.

i voted internet, the mental scars from some of the images i've seen on the iinternet run deep, the TV has yet to scar me at all really




some examples would help

Oh yeah you got to love Skinemax titles, they're so honest.

i voted for both.. and no.. i did not vote for pie

havent you ever heard the song "the internet is for porn?"
the internet, all the way

TV has porn too, perhaps not as... interesting as internet porn but porn nonetheless.

'interesting' porn is the only kind for me, some of it makes me lmfao

Sometimes I watch Euro stuff not for arousal but because I need a good laugh. Some of that stuff is so funny that you forget that its porn. Whenever they try speaking English I crack up.

Bad porn is less entertaining than bad non-porn films. Mostly because having sex in bad porn is simply monotonous. The funny bits are when they try to act.

And I argue that people are inherently corrupt, that television or the internet or money simply reveal the type of person you are underneath. If you're a nice guy and you get a million bucks, you'll still be a nice guy. If you're a bad and juvenile guy, you'll hang out at 4chan. The idea of corruption is only so popular because it lets bad people feel like they're really good people underneath.

Not that there's anything wrong with being a bad person. I'm one and it's working out fantastically.

I like how you can say in a paragraph what I could say in a sentence and still not say anything important, bravo sir.
Your name is fitting.

Subtle and understated doesn't work in real life.

I think it's silly to blame television, the internet, video games, comic books...etc...for any kind of "corruption". I know all different kinds of people, with all different kinds of moral compasses, and beliefs and opinions. The one thing we have all had (more or less) in common, is that we all watch television, use the internet and play video games. Some of us turned out to be down-right rotten people, and some of us turned out to be well-balanced, moral, upstanding members of society.

It had nothing to do with the shows we watched or the sites we went to, it had to do with our parents, our friends, and the things we chose to allow ourselves to be influenced by. I'm sure genetics played a role too.

As for which is WORSE, it depends on how it's used. Television CAN be worse than the internet, and vice versa. There's obviously more available on the net, simply due to the fact that it isn't censored the same way, but yeah...for the most part it totally depends on the individual and how seriously they take what they're seeing. When it comes down to it, if you were brought up with some kind of basic value system, and taught to make your own decisions/judgements...neither the internet or television should be able to influence you enough to "corrupt" you.

i can not vote because the japanesse rot it more with there inhuman torture techniques and the feared, dare i say it, anime shows, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'm surprised this is as far as the mentions go, but hey-

You can watch almost anything on TV ... online. Eventually.

So I would vote either internet, or both, but both is more suited to my indecisive nature, so... both.

..Got any link to a site where i can watch ncis? the official site is for american citizens only

Surf the Channel

Thanks *hugs*

The interwebs is most definitely more corruptive.
I don't want to be corrupted.

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This post is ironic

I voted for internet cuz simple,television is localised,and from where I'm staying that's not something you would want to watch,while internet on the other hand is "the whole in your hand" (more materials ---> more corruption)

after thinking about it a bit, I also have to go for the internet. The people who are saying that the internet corrupts you only as far as you want to be corrupted, are right in a way, but there is a mayor problem. Unlike the tv, the internet gives all kinds of perverts and maniacs the possibility to form networks, exchanging with their own kind. The issue is that age control does not work on the internet and parents mostly have no clue of what their kids are doing online. So there is a high chance a minor stumbles across a perv network sometime. And that's more corruptive than tv can ever be. 4chan is nothing but the tip of the tip of the iceberg here.

fix'd

Also, PIE

I think the big problem is the money being made form the internet and tv
See.. no matter what you watch you run into Adds...

Money being made from alll this sponsors other things that can have a negative impact on our brains.

So in reality.. Money is evil. So Bootleg.

You realize if you bootleg everything no one makes anything because they don't get paid right? Bootlegging wouldn't work if everyone did it for everything.

yeah, speaking from a capitalistic approach that's true. If you look at it from a communist/anarchist POV however, bootlegging money makes perfect sennse. But I guess that's OT...

It makes no sense from any perspective.
Bootlegging doesn't work because without any flow of cash to the creators the stuff that you want to bootleg (be it movies, books, music, etc) doesn't get made.
And what do you mean bootlegging money? You mean counterfeiting? Because that also doesn't make sense, counterfeiting hurts the currency by reducing trust in it and causing inflation.

I chose both, though I'm reconsidering just using TV. The Internet, while prone to rotting and the like, does encourage free thinking (I tend to wander the depths of Wikipedia from one article to the next, linking wisdom and learning all the crap I never knew before!). It's rather fantastic. And while the dredges of the internet are seething underneath with trolling, random happenings, for the most part, forums are intelligent, or even when they're not they're at least witty and make me think, and encourage my own individual contribution (so I have to think).

While TV is single handedly silencing the masses, with inept news reporting that twists your perspective and encourages you to watch more just so they can improve their ratings, shows that have competition but focus on people's failures rather then their successes, and an endless stream of sitcoms and slap stick comedy which even the most daring of writers hardly ever get beyond tredding water in the baby pool.

TV has done more to crush the imagination than the Internet could even hope to accomplish.

Until we get full virtual reality (with non-participation by the viewer), nothing will compare.

and that's a capitalistic approach again, because you're assuming that people need to get paid in money for the product or service they provide. There are several thinkers stating the society could do without that. But I won't comment on that any further, since it's derailing the topic...