LeeKenobi posted: I blame the hippies mind-set where parents pump their kids full of mood-altering drugs if they have a bad day or act out of line instead of trying to find out the source of the problem. Hell, if your kid is acting up, forget Ritalin. Just use good old American leather.
KnightWriter posted:I guess my point from earlier was that Kent University was a BIG thing back in the past kent state was not a school shooting. kent state students were simply shot by national guardsmen.
sidious618 posted:This leads to misled children who use MTV's Jackass and VH1 as their main source of parentage. Oh, c'mon. No one is being brought up by those television shows. Granted, the media does have an effect on our lives but you can't blame violence on MTV no matter how hard you try.
Darth-Horax posted:It comes down to people who dont' take repsonsibility for their actions.
Everton posted:We can't run our society, and decide upon the boundaries for the vast vast vast vast majority, on the basis that a violent TV show or video game might provoke lunatic action from one individual. Seperation of art and real life is something that 99.9% of the population can do without a second thought. The one madman who can't do that has to be identified before they can act out their fantasies, not catered to by a blander than bland world of entertainment.
sidious618 posted:You totally misunderstood my post. I'm saying that the absence of parents in the home has led to TV as being a main source of entertainment and teaching for children, which in turn leads to things SUCH as violence. I'm not saying that MTV causes violence, hemmorhoids, or even AIDS. If this is what you got from my post, then it was totally misread. TV is the main source of entertainment for most of us but I don't think anybody, even an idiot, looks to MTV or VH1 for life lessons. I think that our world is now more in tune to the violence than it was before so it looks like we're living in anarchy but it's really not as bad as it looks.
rhonderoo posted:I'm sorry, are we saying we didn't report violence in the sixties, seventies and eighties? Because that seems to be what you're saying. I'm pretty sure that school shootings would have been in the news.
