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Topic: The government should control the amount of
violence in films and on television in order to decrease violent crimes in
society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It has been
suggested that the government should control the amount of violence in films
and on television in order to decrease the rate of violent crimes in
society. It would certainly be easy to
garner support for such a move, but solely adapting such a policy will do
little to effect social change.
The question has often been raised as to what
extent media violence actually influences behavior. One can readily recount incidences of a child
or young person viewing some violent behavior in a movie or on television and
then trying to reproduce that situation in real life. It is hard to estimate the amount of violence
which can be traced back to television shows or movies but the existence of
such incidences is undeniable.
Logically, removing this violent content should directly reduce the
incidence of such violence but this relationship between violent media content
and violent behavior is not so simple.
While much has been recorded of young people
imitating media violence, little has been directed to the influence of sad
violence on those who are able to differentiate the imaginary situations in
movies and on television from reality. If one were to find no similar
relationship it could be immediately surmised that the most direct solution is increased
supervision of young people, and not the modification of media content. The degree to which people are influenced by
what they see in the media depends directly on how responsibly they are
educated about the relationship of fiction and reality.
Watching
comedies does not transform one into a comedian, and watching violent movies
does not directly make one violent. Rather than taking crude half measures to
repair complex social problems, more focus must be placed on the nature of
interpersonal relationships, social responsibility and personal accountability.
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