I hate to break this to you, but as a member of society, you sometimes must sacrifice your personal pleasures for the needs/desires of others. As a member of society, I have no obligation to conform my perfectly legal and, in my opinion, appropriate activities to your personal and particular standard of what is appropriate for your child -- a standard that, clearly, is not shared by all parents. If you think an activity undertaken in society is inappropriate for child, don't bring your child to the activity -- you have no entitlement to demand that society change for your child.

Two bad analogies. Both smoking and eating peanuts creates a substantial and undisputed hazard to others. There is no dispute that in-cabin smoking made non-smokers and, particularly, crew, ill. There is no dispute that somewhat with a peanut allergy will go into anaphylactic shock if exposed to peanut dust. Finally, there is no dispute that Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to regulate interstate commerce and pass laws that promote the general welfare. Precluding the showing of a film because its theatrical release was rated PG-13 or R only goes to the aesthetic and moral preferences of a subset of parents -- no one is going to die if a PG-13 film is shown and, more to the point, no one is forcing anyone to watch it.


What is? Not engaging in activity that is harmful to others? Yes, I agree. Showing a PG-13 or R-rated movie that some people think might be offensive if seen by their children is not engaging in an activity that is harmful to others.

Nope, I'm not going to tell you that. I'm going to tell you that I have absolutely no interest in what you think is an appropriate film for your kids to be exposed to because, your opinion notwithstanding, there is not the least bit of evidence that children are harmed by the limited amount of exposure they might get to the heavily-edited airline film fare and there are plenty of alternatives available to you even if you insist that you must bring them on the aircraft.

What in the world makes you think most people would agree with this? If anything, I would think you'd realize, just from the responses in this thread, that most people vehemently disagree with this proposed regulation.

That's right -- I pay taxes to educate kids because it's a societal good. I don't know a single person who advocate for an ignorant and uneducated citizenry. It is not, however, a societal good to make all of society child-safe and kid-friendly. It is not, however, a societal good to limit what plane passengers can watch because YOU believe that catching a glimpse of a bare breast or the results of violence is poisonous to your child.