“The phenomena of the copy cat effect was first discovered in 1774, with a large number of suicides copying the method used in a novel.”
Maybe we can go back even further than that and take it all the way to today with the reading of Romeo & Juliet. Students have been reading Shakespeare for centuries and this theory believes that reading Shakespeare encourages murder and suicide?
What if instead of blaming Shakespeare for murders and suicides, or blaming news outlets for mass shootings and violence in the streets of America, we place the responsibility on those that actually commit those violent acts?
What if we hold the Media responsible for encouraging mass murder?
What if we wake up to the fact most of the Media are our enemy?
What if we stop being deliberately misleading?
It is easy to play the what if game.