RE: media violence report in Science

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 23:20:23 BST

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: media violence report in Science
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    Hello, Wade,

    What do you make of the article Ray posted? It suggests that watching
    violence on TV DOES lead to a greater propensity for violent behavior in the
    viewer.

    I am not suggesting that a person isn't responsible for what they do,
    regardless of how much or what kind of TV they have watched. But I would not
    be surprised if by watching violence a person does not accustom himself to
    the patterns he observes.

    Lawrence

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Wade T.Smith
    > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 4:08 PM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: media violence report in Science
    >
    >
    >
    > On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 03:48 , Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
    >
    > > It makes me wonder what impact living amidst inescapable real daily
    > > violence
    > > has on Palestinians and Israelis. Thoughts, anyone?
    >
    > Media violence has always been a red herring of the politically useless
    > liberal set and the intellectually challenged social science set and
    > always will be.
    >
    > The people living amidst violence smell real blood and see real bullets.
    > They answer in kind, or they answer in flight, or they answer in fear,
    > because they are human and they feel.
    >
    > There is no preparation for violent motive or action from media images
    > and never has been, nor has there ever been any needed for man to kill
    > his neighbor or his kin or his enemy.
    >
    > Pushing off the relentless capacity for evil upon an image is sheer
    > idiocy.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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