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Opinions on Media Violence
1. We are now living in a violent world and the disheartening part of it is there are a lot of violent cases which involve youngsters-they are the masterminds of all this evil doing or they are the victims themselves. Should media violence be responsible on that? No doubt, media violence has affected children's mindsets negatively to certain extent and it is a problem. We all know that children are more vulnerable towards all kind of information from various sources.
Additional to that, they like to imitate what they see, hear and so on. Therefore, I am of the opinion that media violence can desensitize them to violence. However, as I said before we are living in a violence world, there is a trend showing that criminals' target our children now. We, therefore, need to expose our kids to the kinds of violence that exists in order to make them realize the dangerous world outside and learn how to protect themselves. We cannot let them living in ignorance as this will in turn put their own safety at stake. Daisy Tan, Malaisia
2. Media violence has been filling the society for several years. Authorities must be more important about it . It can take negative influence to the society. My reasons are as follows. First, for teenager, they cannot judge the thing and they may be as familiar as behavior from the media. They may cause the criminal motivation and activity. The criminal rate will be raise. Second, there are likely killing, robbing, stealing, suicide, etc. Many people are to learn from the media, so authorities must forbid of media violence. Otherwise we won't live in peaceful society. Then it will happen the violence events in everyday. Third, if we turn on the TV or read the newspaper, etc. They are filled with violence events. Then our mind and spirit have uncomfortable and upset. Someone may think unpeaceful and hardship in his life. They can have negative thinking and behavior. At that time they may cause spiritual disease. To sum up, authorities have to forbid of media violence and draw up strickly law . And also the media will be heavily forfeit. They can effectively prevent the media violence. May, Taiwan
3. I believe that media violence does not effect the way that teens or children act. I believe the way teens act is up to them. TV does influence them, it depends on if they want to get influence by what they are watching. As teens and children get older they try new things. I must say that some T.V. shows might influence but I don’t think that teens or children will let a T.V. show influence them. I can see if they are like 5-7 and they believe what they see is true and it will happen. So I'm going to close my discussion about violence. Brandon Alexander, U.S.


4. I believe that media violence does have an affect on children. Children don't know the difference between acting and things that go on in real life but it's not the children’s fault that they go out and repeat what happened on television. It is the parents fault that they don't teach their children that shooting somebody in the head on television is not real life. The parents leave their four year old child at home unsupervised with a one year old baby and the four year old decides to do some wrestling moves on the baby, the baby gets killed and who's to blame? Mario Ford, U.S.

I really don't think that media violence is that bad. As long as you talk to your children and make them realize that violence is on TV and you shouldn't repeat what you see then it's alright. The children who mimic the things they see on television are most likely the ones who are killing other children or joining gangs and such. They were never taught that you don't mimic that sort of stuff......