Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA13378 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:12:28 +0100 Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:06:23 -0400 Subject: Re: media violence report in Science Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <F69n1PQmbpqBWNDCEcP00021a8a@hotmail.com> Message-Id: <CDD05589-4FB0-11D6-ABED-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 11:20 , Scott Chase wrote:
> I guess the issue is what influence media portrayal of violence has on
> people's behavior (children especially). Violence has been, still is,
> and will continue to be a part of human experience in the "real world".
> Violence predated movies and TV by many years. Movies and TV's potrayal
> violences as a means of capturing this reality. Should TV and movies be
> candy-coated and portray a sanitized ideal in some hopes of humanity
> thus achieving some more civilized state?
It is precisely those who feel that providing this sugar-coated facade
will achieve some utopian love-your-neighbor condition who foment the
argument that we'd all be lambs without all these wolves on the TV
screen.
Nonsense.
- Wade
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