[thechris]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

I have a theory that a lot of people have problems with what their kids see if they have to bother to explain anything (Such as homosexuality or human anatomy), over stuff that's more self explanitory, like violence.
While this definately does not describe every parent, around me more people seem to want to sit their kids in front of TV and be done with it until bedtime.

Of course, this does not say that a kid will grow up messed up watching TV. I grew up on it. It didn't make me braindead at all (In fact, I think it encouraged my imagination). But I do wish my father had bothered to spend any time at all with me, instead of making me go watch TV in my room so he could watch what he wanted in the livingroom.

Just my opinions.

Yeah I have to think that at some point, we have to accept that a lot of choices are our own. For example, your father sent you off to watch TV in your own room but that didn't make you lash out on society and smash someone's windshield. The same thing could cause someone else to freak out and kill a cat. Obviously good parenting would typically have a positive effect on someone but it isn't always the case but I think of those situations as anomalies. I mean in the case where a parent raises a child to the best of his or her ability and he/she winds up a bad egg, what more can that parent have done then? Some people are just evil.

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Originally Posted by RexLewis85

I see nothing wrong with violence in media...I was watching things like Nightmare on elm street, Friday the 13th and Halloween when I was 5 years old and I turned out okay. See what these upstanding citizens fail to mention when they go shooting down violence in the media is this: The bible, the arguably one of the most sacred books to man, has TONS of violent acts in it. But I guarantee if you bring that up to some of these bleeding hearts they would say something asinine like "Well that's different" How? How is it different? NERVOUS???

You'd have to assume that the "upstanding citizen" is also a Christian which isn't always the case. It's over generalization of a specific group of people. I think, though, in partial defense of those who are Christians, they're also assuming that whatever is written in that book is true and has happened and so, at least to a Christian, it's more like a history of creation. You really can't compare that with something generally accepted as work of fiction whose main purpose is to freak you out with something disgusting, violent or perverse. It's the same thing that someone who is complaining about the violence in media is doing, is it not? They're making the assumption that violent images would cause people to act out in a violent way when in reality, only a percentage of people would be affected in such a way and a percentage of these people already have a predisposition to doing such acts.

It's hard to know, though, isn't it? What will and what will not cause somebody to go over the deep end? For example, loving and nurturing a child is generally positive and well received, however, there's always deviants. There's always going to be a kid who "won't work that way" and that kid will hate his parents for loving him so much, consider it smothering, flip out, kill somebody. However, you aren't going to not buy a new car and just walk for the rest of your life just because at least one of the cars at the dealership might break down after 1000 miles and you're not going to treat your kids like crap just because you might have THAT kid who might start drowning puppies because your family was too perfect.

In life, just use your common sense and hope for the best.