Violence is everywhere nowadays. It is on our television screens, with all the games we play and the shows we watch. It is on the music we listen to, from death metal to the gangsta rap. It is in our movie theaters, such as the gory horror flicks and the epic fantasies. We as human beings love violence. As Famous movie director Quentin Tarantino famously said “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.” I myself am guilty of this. I loved violence when I was a kid, I adore violence right now, and I’m going to continue to be extremely entertained by violence in the future. The sad part is, violence is everywhere. It is common to hear in the news about a mass shooting, there is gang violence in the inner city of every major town of the
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It has been proven that media violence does not affect empathy on the entertained. As UF (University of Florida) psychology professor Christopher Ferguson’s study show, the reactions of exposure on both fake and real violence have no effect on each other. In his study, Ferguson discovered that after watching several action scenes, volunteers tested reacted the same way to clips of beheadings, suicide bombings, and combat that those exposed to comedies and musicals. Right now at this very moment several countries are sending troops to certain areas of the Middle East to fight ISIS and other terrorist organization. Their main impulse- or their main excuse at least- is the couple attacks, such as the ones in Paris and nine-eleven fourteen years ago. The countries attacked have an immensely violent entertainment culture, yet they were the ones that helped their communities and demanded their government to …show more content…
Girls who enjoyed the book the most had a bigger history of abuse in the past than those that did not like or did not read the novel. Also- this is from personal observations- boys who play the most violent videogames tend to be the ones that enjoy fights the most, and teens that are into violent music tends to be the ones that hurt themselves the most, It seems like there is a big correlation of violence in media and the behavior of these people. But is not that their taste media attracted them to have this behavior, instead it is their behavior that attracted them to have this taste of media. For example, take the girls who enjoyed 50 shades… The majority did not have their abusive relationships because they liked the book, but they liked the book because their attraction to masochism. This is evident when one walks thought the hallways of a normal High School. One can see the emos, Jocks, Metal heads, Weeaboos. And if you get to know this people, it is easy to realize they are not who they are because of the media, but because of their own personal taste and
It has been proven that media violence does not affect empathy on the entertained. As UF (University of Florida) psychology professor Christopher Ferguson’s study show, the reactions of exposure on both fake and real violence have no effect on each other. In his study, Ferguson discovered that after watching several action scenes, volunteers tested reacted the same way to clips of beheadings, suicide bombings, and combat that those exposed to comedies and musicals. Right now at this very moment several countries are sending troops to certain areas of the Middle East to fight ISIS and other terrorist organization. Their main impulse- or their main excuse at least- is the couple attacks, such as the ones in Paris and nine-eleven fourteen years ago. The countries attacked have an immensely violent entertainment culture, yet they were the ones that helped their communities and demanded their government to …show more content…
Girls who enjoyed the book the most had a bigger history of abuse in the past than those that did not like or did not read the novel. Also- this is from personal observations- boys who play the most violent videogames tend to be the ones that enjoy fights the most, and teens that are into violent music tends to be the ones that hurt themselves the most, It seems like there is a big correlation of violence in media and the behavior of these people. But is not that their taste media attracted them to have this behavior, instead it is their behavior that attracted them to have this taste of media. For example, take the girls who enjoyed 50 shades… The majority did not have their abusive relationships because they liked the book, but they liked the book because their attraction to masochism. This is evident when one walks thought the hallways of a normal High School. One can see the emos, Jocks, Metal heads, Weeaboos. And if you get to know this people, it is easy to realize they are not who they are because of the media, but because of their own personal taste and