"No link between movie, video game violence and ..." Topic

…societal violence?. More violent video game consumption, less youth violence: Study.

"Since the 1920s, scholars and politicians have blamed violence in movies and other media as a contributing factor to rising violence in society. Recently the responses to mass shootings in Aurora, CO and at Sandy Hook Elementary followed this theme as media consumption came into the equation. But can consumption of violent media really be a factor in real-world violence? A recent study found that there were no associations between media violence consumption in society and societal violence…"
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That leaves us with the other theory: people are violent because some of them are just no ing good.

Less bad kids is by better parenting.
Teach your kids games. They'll be better kids. ;)

Gosh, they've been blaming comic books for the same things for just as long….

That leaves us with the other theory:

Dungeons and Dragons
Rock and Roll Music
Jazz
The Horseless Carriage
Rifled Barrels
The Iron Horse
Textile Mills
The Printing Press
Athenian Democracy
Zero
Fire

Perhaps original sin may explain some, after all Cain slew Able long before any of the above options.

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If you've got the stones, read "Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence". Written in 1997 by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson examining the evolutionary factors leading to human male violence. But women get no free ride here either and shown as eager and willing accomplices.

The answer- At heart we are nasty murdering, brutal animals.

Unlike the Rousseaan idea of the gentleness and virtue of "natural man" Wrangham and Peterson show human males to be exactly like chimpanzees when they reach puberty. Before, they are friendly child-like gentle animals. Once they hit puberty they turn into vicious, nasty, cruel, murderous beasts.

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