The Pros And Cons Of Media Violence

Register to read the introduction… Due to the interactive nature of video games – the player is in direct control of most of the violence that occurs on screen – many critics claim that a direct link can be made between this virtual simulation and the thoughts that occur in the brain, and that the brain can not tell the difference between a simulation and real life. Because of shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s fascination with games such as Doom, April 20, 1999’s Columbine Shooting gave way for mental tests to be run on children and teenagers as to the effects of violence in video games; with many of these tests leading to a negative outcome that obsession with these forms of media may lead children and troubled teens to have difficulty telling the difference between reality and fantasy. Violence in films have also been targeted in the past as directly influencing many violent events in history; such as The Hungerford Massacre which occurred in August 19, 1987 in the British village of Hungerford, and involved an individual who dressed up like Rambo and killed sixteen people while wounding fifteen others. The many explosions and other scenes of violence depicted in the movie Rambo somehow managed to influence a moron into …show more content…
It is entirely unacceptable to acknowledge that the Columbine killers actually grew up in a much envied “all-American” home with both parents (Harris’s website actually testified that he was against Marilyn Manson and all other forms of mainstream media) as apposed to a divorced household with abusive