Violence is in-built into human society, whether or not people watch violent movies. Yes, I have concerns with the effect on children and mentally ill grown-ups of such movies. Children tend to imitate what they see on TV or movies, and if they watch a lot of violence there and don't get parental guidance on what is acceptable behaviour, there will be problems later. There is also a long history of psychotic killers who admitted to being at least partly influenced by movies they watched.
Violent movies are going to be around a long time, and every society has its criminally insane people. The idiotic aspect of American society is how it simply refuses to control access to guns, especially semi-automatic weapons. Guns make it too easy to kill lots of people. A psychotic killer who didn't have a gun may pick up a knife instead. He would have to get up close to a person to kill or injure him. Everyone else would have plenty of time to get away.
Their National Rifle Association's mantra is "guns don't kill people , people kill people". But it never registers in their mind that guns make it much easier to kill lots of people. Other than a bow and arrow (who carries those around these days?), there is no other weapon which can kill people at a distance.
yeah, i agree that violent movies are going to be around for a long time to come but we must also raise the popular awareness that (1) it can cause psychological harm to people, especially children and youths as well as infant-like adults and (2) responsible parenting include educating their children not to mimic actions or behaviours of fictional "heroes" and "heroines" in movies or video games
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Violence is in-built into human society, whether or not people watch violent movies. Yes, I have concerns with the effect on children and mentally ill grown-ups of such movies. Children tend to imitate what they see on TV or movies, and if they watch a lot of violence there and don't get parental guidance on what is acceptable behaviour, there will be problems later.
There is also a long history of psychotic killers who admitted to being at least partly influenced by movies they watched.
Violent movies are going to be around a long time, and every society has its criminally insane people. The idiotic aspect of American society is how it simply refuses to control access to guns, especially semi-automatic weapons. Guns make it too easy to kill lots of people.
A psychotic killer who didn't have a gun may pick up a knife instead. He would have to get up close to a person to kill or injure him. Everyone else would have plenty of time to get away.
Their National Rifle Association's mantra is "guns don't kill people , people kill people". But it never registers in their mind that guns make it much easier to kill lots of people. Other than a bow and arrow (who carries those around these days?), there is no other weapon which can kill people at a distance.
yeah, i agree that violent movies are going to be around for a long time to come but we must also raise the popular awareness that (1) it can cause psychological harm to people, especially children and youths as well as infant-like adults and (2) responsible parenting include educating their children not to mimic actions or behaviours of fictional "heroes" and "heroines" in movies or video games
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