Will this make the front page of the LA Times?
1 posted on
12/15/2008 2:59:23 PM PST by
gaudete
To: gaudete
Gee, who would have GUESSED that?
Common sense is in short supply.
2 posted on
12/15/2008 3:02:59 PM PST by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: gaudete
If media did not have an effect on peoples behavior, companies would not be spending billions on advertising.
4 posted on
12/15/2008 3:07:03 PM PST by
OCC
To: gaudete
Linkage:
Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Abstract.
Longitudinal Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression in Japan and the United States Abstract.
6 posted on
12/15/2008 3:11:52 PM PST by
CE2949BB
(Fight.)
To: gaudete
"Will this make the front page of the LA Times?"
It certainly will, if the LA Times people see it. Attitudes about sex and violence are mostly learned from libertine, selfish parents and libertine, selfish peers in public schools.
Games like Quake 3 and Postal 2 don't lead teens or adults to violence, although such games do improve their spacial-visual coordination and make them laugh at bizarre situations. Properly taught young people know the difference between a game and real cruelty. Lack of moral teachings does open them to apathetic, violent and promiscuous tendencies promoted by their peers.
How many of you have attacked someone or had one-night stands due to influence by a morbid joke? How many of you have done so, because your peers did so?
7 posted on
12/15/2008 3:57:36 PM PST by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
To: gaudete
BTW, feminist/romantic propaganda has done more to influence young people toward promiscuity than movies or games.
8 posted on
12/15/2008 3:58:55 PM PST by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
To: gaudete
I think a better question would be:
“Do parents who let their children run amok get children who run amok?”
Even years ago, school efforts like DARE and other such programs were populated by straight-laced, disciplined children of orderly parents, the last kids who actually needed those programs. Nothing quite like seeing a bunch of upper class Mormon kids given weekly urinalysis tests. These were kids who wouldn’t touch soft drinks.
Comic books, TV shows, video games, etc., are far less likely to create such problems than to feed such problems. A lot of the kids that do drugs and drink are “self-medicating”, because their home life stinks. They are the ones prone to every vile thing.
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