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Violence Due To The Media

Recent outbreaks of violence involving adolescents have resulted in many ignorant people pointing the blame at entertainment. This preposterous blame has inspired a lot of controversy and there are some who see censorship as the solution to the growing problem of violence. I find this absurd. I am strongly opposed to the censorship of any material that is not extremely graphic and believe that parents should regulate what their children should see. Omitting violence from the media does not omit it from life and thinking that it does is ridiculous.
Would you butcher a Shakespearean play by cleaning up the language and taking out all scenes that contain violence? I think not. Why is ...

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of the shows level of maturity.
Television violence and vulgarity are not the only examples of unjust censorship. Who can speak their mind on controversial subjects such as the murder that occurs every day, which is abortion and the faults in our government? The message needs to be heard about these and other wrongs of society, but they aren’t. No one can make their message heard to wide masses of people unless it is a politically correct and non-controversial message, and that’s not the way that it should be. That further demonstrates the injustice of censorship.
And it doesn’t end there. There are people who want to lay the blame for violence and killing on video gaming, an entertainment medium. How can you blame a child’s insanity on a video game? I blame it on an unstable mind, and I don’t see how anyone can be so ignorant as to say video games lead a person to kill. Games have come to be more than what the general public thinks of them. Most of them have complicated ...

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Added: 7/18/2008 02:17:37 PM
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