You're demonstrating the point I was making in my previous posts.
In your opinion and in mine, nothing is actually wrong with either television show, and we both believe they are morally acceptable. Opinions are, by definition, views or judgements not necessarily based on fact or knowledge but subjective feelings. They're influenced by our culture, friends and family, religious and political beliefs, and our penchants. And our opinions impact how we gauge moral acceptability when it comes to choices such as what we watch or read.
Again, I perfectly understand why you didn't issue a warning about them, as well as your need to inquire why anyone would take strenuous objections to either. I'm not fond of
The Big Bang Theory because I share
@Thrash Metalhead 's dislike of shows with laugh tracks, but that's a matter of personal taste rather than personal conscience. My boyfriend and brothers have long been fans of the show. Others do object to both shows for reasons of personal conscience, though, because their opinions vastly differ from ours. Like you, I grew up watching
Modern Family. It's a show I have a lot of affection for because it was a family tradition for us to enjoy watching it together, and then the next day during lunch at school I'd laugh about the episode with my friends who'd also relished it. I don't think either of us were adversely effected from longterm viewership of these shows.
In the opinion of the religious right-wing leader of the American Family Association, though, it's "like poison" and is destroying America from within. He's declared
Modern Family as the most reprehensible and dangerous show on air, and accused parents who permit their children to watch it of neglectfully exposing them to moral turpitude that could be damaging to their souls. He has quite the flair for drama.
Religious right leader says “Modern Family” is like “poison”
If you look on the site Saricharity shared, Plugged In, you'll see that they've written a haughty review censuring it and lamenting that the show is responsible for insidiously changing the cultural landscape of America. Those who are staunchly right-wing have
far more rigorously protested
Modern Family because it's a family-oriented show than
Game of Thrones which is clearly marketed for adults and rarely ever viewed by school-aged children young enough to still be very malleable.
Imagine if you'd never watched
Modern Family to experience it for yourself, and you'd never even heard of it before. That you'd grown up in a very hermetic environment closed off from pop culture influence. That your very first impression was formed by a post warning of its moral objections, and then your second and third impressions were from the article above and the review on Plugged In. How do you think you'd react? Without the personal connection that you have to anchor you - without the confidence in knowing after years of watching it that it had not been detrimental to you as the critics claimed it is for young people, and that you in fact gained benefit from the show - you'd likely feel differently than you do.
Some of the objections to
The Big Bang Theory have been listed in post #89. Ken Ham has also seethed over the show.
His opinion is entirely irrelevant to me, though, as is the right-winger's from American Family Association. I do respect your opinion that both shows are good. I am a believer in the adage to "not judge a book by its cover" ---- or by the opinions others have of it, and to instead judge it by reading it for yourself. I feel the same way about TV shows and movies. I'll be guided and influenced by reviews and feedback from others to an extent, but I'll hold off on forming a conclusive opinion until I've seen or read it for myself. That's not to say that if I felt strongly that I shouldn't watch it or read it, that I would anyway; I'd simply refrain from issuing judgements without the benefit of any personal experience.
--- I wanted to add that I was simply answering your questions. I'm hoping that this will not lead to another debate. It would be refreshing to just get back to talking about the shows we enjoy. ---