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Does Violence in movies cause Real Life Violence?
Topic Started: Mar 21 2013, 04:49 PM (383 Views)
Kevin R.
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mikebourkefan
Mar 10 2015, 06:44 PM
it can give someone ideas for real violence but only ideas. the person themselves is who ultimately causes the real violence
Like they said in Scream, movies don't create psychos, they only make psychos more creative. Someone might get an idea on how to murder somebody from watching a movie or playing a game, but if they had the will to act on it, then they were kind of already broken in the head to begin with. The incident I will always point to in response to claims that media turns people violent is the Manson Family -- Charles Manson raised a cult of brainwashed followers who murdered people at his command, in an effort to start an apocalyptic race war that would end with him and his cult ruling what was left of America, all because he read too much into The Beatles' White Album.

The only exceptions I'll make are a) people murdering each other over online games, and b) people committing crimes due to political, religious, or otherwise ideological propaganda. But again, they're exceptions that prove the rule. The former always turns out to have more to do with personal insults or fraud committed within the game than anything particular to the game itself -- in other words, the cause of many real-world murders that have nothing to do with online gaming. The game is simply the avenue that brought two assholes together to insult and defraud one another. (Some games can foster an atmosphere where asshole behavior is encouraged, but that's neither here nor there.) And with the latter, that's often the entire point of the work in question, to drive people to "stand up" for some sort of belief system by way of civil disobedience and law-breaking.
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Mar 11 2015, 09:16 AM
mikebourkefan
Mar 10 2015, 06:44 PM
it can give someone ideas for real violence but only ideas. the person themselves is who ultimately causes the real violence
Like they said in Scream, movies don't create psychos, they only make psychos more creative. Someone might get an idea on how to murder somebody from watching a movie or playing a game, but if they had the will to act on it, then they were kind of already broken in the head to begin with. The incident I will always point to in response to claims that media turns people violent is the Manson Family -- Charles Manson raised a cult of brainwashed followers who murdered people at his command, in an effort to start an apocalyptic race war that would end with him and his cult ruling what was left of America, all because he read too much into The Beatles' White Album.

The only exceptions I'll make are a) people murdering each other over online games, and b) people committing crimes due to political, religious, or otherwise ideological propaganda. But again, they're exceptions that prove the rule. The former always turns out to have more to do with personal insults or fraud committed within the game than anything particular to the game itself -- in other words, the cause of many real-world murders that have nothing to do with online gaming. The game is simply the avenue that brought two assholes together to insult and defraud one another. (Some games can foster an atmosphere where asshole behavior is encouraged, but that's neither here nor there.) And with the latter, that's often the entire point of the work in question, to drive people to "stand up" for some sort of belief system by way of civil disobedience and law-breaking.


very well said cheers
Edited by mikebourkefan, Mar 11 2015, 02:37 PM.


Damon: im bad Andie i do things i kill people

Andie: why do you kill people

Damon: because i like it- Damon Salvatore talking to Andie Star from season 2 of the Vampire Diaries
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