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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
It seems more up to the parents to monitor what kids watch and play on video games and the like. Adults should be able to tell the difference between the worlds of say Middle Earth (The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogies be they in film, book or video game form.
A Clockwork Orange had a solution to destroying the violent tendencies of its anti-hero by having the State force him to watch violent movies and other scenes of violence over-and-over again with his eyes pried open. Unfortunately, with some kids the more they play extremely violent video games with the full ability to close their eyes, to blink and look away, the more desensitized to violence they become.
Still seems more of getting to the hearts and minds of kids through education than anything else. Overall this seems a matter of our educators and kids' parents, parent, grandparent(s), uncle, aunts, grand uncles, grand aunts.
From personal experience, it seems the more you tell a kid that he or she should not watch some show or play some video game, the more they want to watch it. Especially with teens.
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Much of that is true of course. The problem being, that people with minds that tend to fantacize about violence will always find a way to access that which is available, despite the guidance of parents, clergy, educators, etc. Keep in mind the last several mass killers that come to mind were all "adults"; Connecticut, Aurora, Arizona, Va Tech................