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Originally posted by ARTelevision
looney toons are not as violent as hyper-realistic or hyper-surrealistic high-technology violence that is produced with the intention of exaggerating every sensorial aspect of violent acts, such as extreme blood letting, gore, and flesh-and-bone crunching sound.
If you aren't willing to discuss degrees of these issues - we are stuck with a very polarized situation in which there can be only minimal dialog.
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until one is prepared to admit that there is something desensitizing and debilitating about the games one loves to play and the movies one loves to watch - and until one is willing to discuss what impact these and other forms of brainless packaged sociopathology may have on other people who are not as superhuman as oneself in the ability to transcend such influences - we are at an impasse.
It doesn't seem particularly illuminating to say exceedingly simple things like, "the parents aren't doing their job" as if it was the end of the discussion.
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I would tend to agree that it does in deed desensitize people, but so does the news for that matter. What I am saying is that it should not make some kid want to kill people in real life, if his/her parents did their job. They ought to know that line between make believe and reality.
Also if they are young enough where knowing this line is unreasonable to expect...then it is still the parents fault for not preventing their viewing/playing.
I love those shoot 'em up games, I practicaly grew up on them...I havnt killed anyone yet...nor even thought about it as a possiblity for any other reason than self defense. In reality, I don't think I could kill someone whithout very very good motive.
I hunt as well, and to tell you the truth, I love hunting, but every time I pull that trigger, regardless of whats on the other end of the gun, I ask myself if it is worth taking the life of this animal. A lot of times it is, once in a while it is not. I like the hunt, and the meal, not necesarily the kill.