1. Television is a great time waster.
2. People who don't watch television are happier than those who watch it.
3. Television makes the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to them without any effort on their part.
4. The very danger of watching television lies in the fact that the viewer takes no initiative. They make no choice and no judgment.
5. Television passes on to children the corrupting values of a corrupt society.
6. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read today and barely see the point at all of getting that skill.
7. Television takes up too much of our time.
   We no longer have enough time for hobbies, entertaining activities.
8. Unfortunately all of our free time is now regulated by television.
9. People rush home, gulp their food, which is often as simple as a sandwich and a beer, and then start watching the television.
10. The monster, i.e. television, demands absolute silence and attention.
    No one dares open his or her mouth during a television program
11. People have grown addicted to television, often neglecting the necessary and more important things like meals, sleep, and even work.
12. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but secondhand experience.
13. The more the viewer watches television, the lazier they become. The TV glues them to the set instead of allowing them to go out.
14. People no longer see the need to read books when they can just watch it on television.
15. Families sit and watch television at dinner instead of talking with each other.

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