I often wonder what watching cartoons like this does to a childs mind…

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I think cartoons are allowed to portray things that would be considered inappropriate, extremely violent, and adult only material had it be live action. You have to remember that kids are impressionable, and while to you and I, it is a silly cartoon, the difference may not be readily apparent to a child.

So I wouldn’t judge Casemods too harshly on the comparison, even though I probably wouldn’t have looked at it that way either. From my perspective, kids in general are very resilient, and can learn to cope with a wide array of experiences, both negative and positive, often times much better than adults do.

It’s been my experience that it is only when they experience these things unsupervised, with no parental guidance or training about how to differentiate what is good and bad, and more importantly, why things are good and bad, that things like this end up warping their minds.

The same can be said about being around people who use drugs and alcohol. Neither drugs nor alcohol are inherently bad things, but can lead to bad things if abused. This makes it important that kids with parents or guardians that use them to be taught why they can be bad, and how to avoid getting to that point, either verbally or (much more preferably) by example.