Do you belive that there IS Too Much Violence on TV ???

Question

If So, why ? What can be done about? Why , no ?

Answer 1

I do to some extent and video games and movies too. It is up to a persons own discretion what they watch and hopefully limit what their kids watch too.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is much that can or will be done, becauses it sells.

Answer 2

No. Why?

1. It is a free country. You should be able to watch it if you want to. If you don't like it, you can turn it off. If you don't want your kids to watch it, you can block it or freakin' do some parenting and watch them. Why should everyone be punished just because a few people don't like something, or because one in a million of us flips his lid and shoots someone for totally irrelevant reasons?

2. There is no reason to. People want to blame violence on the television, but it is bull. For one thing, most of the western world has violent television shows, and they don't all have problems with violence like we do. For another thing, if violent television is so influential, then why are there not MORE violent people out there? Millions of us watch it, but only a very small few go nuts and kill anyone, and all of those are not watching violent tv. I love violent television, and I have yet to kill anyone, hit anyone, or even yell at anyone in anger. Itis just television. The difference between me and the nut with a gun is not the television shows we watch, it is the fact that I was raised right, have no serious mental issues, and I don't own a gun.

Blaming the television is a cheap, easy way to avoid discussing the real issues that our society faces. You can put "Leave it to Beaver" on every channel 24 hours a day, and that is not going to make some kid who is psychotic, has a father who hits him, and an uncle who did the nasty with him when he was six grow up into Mr. Niceguy. This subject has come up a lot since the Virginia Tech incident, and the funny thing is that the guy's own roommate said that he hardly ever watched tv, aside of wrestling on Fridays, and he didn't play video games. Is the difference between the guy being a decent, smart young man and a maniac the fact that he watched wrestling on tv? Well, if you think that, then I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.

Answer 3

I don't think the violence on TV matters. I think what matters is that viewers don't use the on/off and channel-changing switch enough! What is "too much" for one person may be perfectly ok for another; when we feel there's too much of ANYTHING (violence, sex, reality shows, or "Quilting with Nancy"), it doesn't matter. You change the channel, and vote with your dollars by NOT buying the products on shows that you consider to be violent (or whatever...). This is particularly important for parents; they CANNOT be spineless about what their children watch and then expect their children to understand what's good and bad on TV; that's what the lock-out features on a cable box and V-chip on your TV are for.

I believe in allowing people to choose; someone who fails to choose for themselves or their children have only themselves to blame.

Answer 4

Sometimes. Nothing can really be done about it because I do not think the movie industry is wholly regulated by our government. I figure if someone doesn't want to watch the violence, then they can tune into some bible thumping show.

Answer 5

Pretty much, but it doesn't stop me from watching it. I think the violence sells.

Answer 6

Lots of classic art and literature is easily as violent as anything on tv, nothing wrong with that.

There's too much crappy writing and acting on tv, sure.

Answer 7

I don't think so.

consider this: several hundred years ago people would gather in large numbers to watch slaves and wild animals kill each other in a recognized, popular form of entertainment.

Isn't it better that we're able to explain to our children that what they're watching isn't real?

Isn't it better that we have the ability to change the channel?

Isn't it better that we have the ability to keep our children from watching this programming?

Answer 8

there is too much violence in life tv echos life of course there is going to be too much violence.

Answer 9

i believe there's too much violenece in the world. fantasy vilolence is a joke. any normal person knows the diffrence between fantasy and reality, and nuts can be set off by anything. blame the bastards/bitches who rob and kill not some stupid show.

Answer 10

That and too many people who don't seem to know when to use capital letters.