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Originally posted by ARTelevision
my friends, sixate and spectre
yeah, OK
but you guys are NOT typical - and not typical impressionable young people.
OK - I accept your defense that you can overcome the influence...
But I'm talking about a demographic. I don't think you guys are "typical" of the demographic.
Would you respond to this point in the abstract?
Again, I'm not talking about YOU here 
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ART- I am one of those impressionable youth. I started by playing games like DOOM and Rise of the Triad when I was maybe 12 or 13, and have been playing horribly violent games ever since. As for violent music, yes, I listen to Eminem, TOOL, whatever the APA considers aggressive, I'm sure.
However, I have never killed anyone, nor had thoughts about seriously doing it. I have never hurt an animal (except for hunting--but that was a one-time thing)....and I dont plan on starting it anytime soon.
You honestly want to know who would listen to violent lyrics and then go do something terrible? The people who don't know the difference between right and wrong. And for whatever purpose, they were never tought right and wrong. When noone is there to teach them, new mediums come into play telling them what is. Be it bad parenting or bad teaching/mentoring, I think that the blame should be placed on them, not the media trying to express a viewpoint.
The same could be said about the complete opposite end of the spectrum. If a "impressionable youth" listens to love music all day long, with no other input from his family/mentors, he'll probably be more sexually active....not because of bad parenting or testosterone, or what have you...but because he listened to love songs all day.