The whole thing just came across as tight-wadded Kirk Cameron waxing poetically and being self-serving in regards to "protecting the kids". It made Mike a massive Marty Stu (or in Kirk Cameron's case, Purity Sue).
That episode was a perfect example of Kirk Cameron wanting to shove his new found morality down our throats. He couldn't let the viewers decided which was truly "right and wrong" because he was the ultimate authority. The same sort of thing happened in an episode where Mike gives Luke a lecture about the dangers of drinking alcohol. It sound like something that Kirk Cameron would say (like reading off the Surgeon General's warning on cigarette packages), not a real person (especially somebody he's age at the time).
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