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What you focus on is what you get (LoA). Violence begets violence.
TV shows and video games are getting more and more graphic and explicit, with increasing sexual content. We are becoming hardened to it.
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may be true, but it is reality. Personally I'd rather know what reality is, than pretend to live in some happy go lucky bubble. You can say that violence causes violence, but that is irrelevent because TV is fake violence. Does fake violence cause real violence? I don't think it does. 99% of people who play video games do not actually take those actions outside of the game and can tell the difference between fake and real. If anything it's the other way around.
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Think about what your children are doing - wouldn't you prefer them to be doing something a bit more healthy, instead of interacting with this kind of rubbish?
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Yes obviously, which is why, as a parent, it is vital to get your child involved with physical activities and other healthy activities (mentally as well as physically), instead of buying them violent video games. Violent games and the likes are for older kids/adults. This is why regular cable TV censors all of this and you have to pay extra to actually watch a movie in its original state. I can't stand watching good movies when they are butchered by censors. It ruins the art. Art imitates reality and that's all it is. Banning art is a facist way of "improving" things, IMO, and it would not improve any of the real violence in the world (ie terrorism, iraq, gang violence, etc).
Also I'm not so sure if TV has really gotten any more violent. I mean back in the 80s we had Freddy, Jason and all kinds of horror/dismemberment films. Not much has changed with that besides improving the video quality. Video games were only 8 bit graphics back then, so real violence was hard to depict. The FCC has gotten WAY more strict in the past 5 years alone.