Do you believe that certain movies, TV, music and video games are kindling for violent behavior?
There’s absolutely no connection between violent rhetoric, films, TV, or video games and violence?
It’s more like, “Monkey see, monkey do.”
Media defines the norms of our culture.
For example, Chicago had never had a single drive-by shooting until BOYZ IN THE HOOD aired on HBO. There were then several that weekend.
Go figure...
Police officers become desensitized to violence because of their job. ER doctors are detached from the violence they see every day. Take a person who was raised without love and respect for life, or who has sociopathic tendencies and put them in the same situation and you have the recipe for a serial killer or mass murderer.
Do you believe that certain movies, TV, music and video games are kindling for violent behavior?
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The US military uses violent shooter video games to train soldiers to be unthinking and reactionary when in shooting situations.