Does so much violence on t v and at the movies, video games, ect. effect young people and lead to shootings and other violent actions?
2007-12-19 11:07:42 · 12 answers · asked by Star doodle 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Absolutely. It desensitizes kids to the value of a life, morality, and consequences when they are continually exposed to TV shows or video games that glamorized it or make it cool to have casual sex, shoot someone, or be a gangster. My son thought that when you die you just come right back like in Halo, or if you shoot someone then they just get back up. So I say Yes it does have a direct impact on the way they view the world.
2007-12-19 11:30:03 · answer #1 · answered by 2U2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the above mentioned is differently effecting the young people. There was a boy who shot someone to death, but the boy was shocked because it wasn't like on the video games. The video games makes everything look simplistic, unsympathetic, an inhuman. This avenue of entertainment will become more horrific and will make an impression on today's child.
2007-12-26 15:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by Snoot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crime is from a lack of cultural development, but that's not all
Eastern Europeans are poorer than West Africans, yet their crime is very small
Sicily is the same size as Haiti, and far poorer all around,
yet Sicilian culture has always been, one of the richest to be found.
Crime is really genetic,though many would like to disagree,
still when a culture learns to work,they don't demand things for free
Integration brought a crime increase, when the haves met the have not's
When equality wasn't what you earned,but was demanded by gun shots
2007-12-19 19:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To a point. I think it kind of desensitizes us to guns and violence and all kinds of stuff like that. Sometimes it gets to the point where you become a sociopath and may act out just to try and feel something.
Now i still dont believe that the movies and video games cause this to happen it might just help push it along a little bit in people who already have sociopathic tendancies.
For example: When i see someone blow up into little bits and pieces i dont even flinch because im used to seeing that kind of thing. But i wouldn't go out and blow someone up just because i saw it on the tv.
Not sure if im explaining this exactly how i wanted to but i think im pretty close.
2007-12-19 19:16:34 · answer #4 · answered by kenny c 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't call it contagious. I would call it being desensitized by violence in the movies and video games and bad parenting. There are exceptions of course.
2007-12-20 00:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think those who disagree, forget that they also embrace the idea of good environments breeding good children [the majority of the time]...so the reverse can also be true.
What I believe is happening is a de-sensitizing to violence...not only to children, but to adults also. Over exposure to this can lead to not just 'feeling' it anymore. I've even noticed with myself that when someone asks me "Did you hear about that little girl that was murdered and raped?" I tend to say 'Which one?' Yet decades ago the entire nation would have been in an uproar. We were not 'used' to that kind of mayhem back then.
I didn't raise my children with violence and even before it became fashionable, kept a watch on what they viewed on TV, movies they saw and books they read.
I STILL believe EVERY effort should be made to allow children to be children as long as they can. Today's children know about oral sex; sodomy; drug; murder; rape; dismemberment...you name it they know about it...and let's not even talk about so-called white collar crime.
Our society has removed all the rites of passages from children's lives and nothing appears sacrosanct anymore...Daggum shame in my opinion...because it removes so much joy from life...trust...and respect for life.
2007-12-19 19:21:33 · answer #6 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Research points out the impact media have on antisocial behavior, including crime and violence.
2007-12-20 11:09:30 · answer #7 · answered by DR W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it may play a part but i think a very minor part -- i do think it is contagious if crime go unchecked than the person who would never have the nerve to commit a crime might think it was time to try it since so few folk were getting punished!!!
2007-12-19 19:28:04 · answer #8 · answered by mister ed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree, I watched some of the video games my g'kids were playing and they were down right gruesome and vulgar even had hookers in them. To make me feel better they told me they "shoot the hookers", well did that make me feel better" NO!!!
2007-12-19 20:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by ndnquah 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe it all plays a part in some of the crime, but not all of it.
2007-12-19 19:12:28 · answer #10 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋