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Originally Posted by TalnSG
While I agree with the premise, I am not entirely in agreement with the assessment of this experiment's results. There are those who become desensitized and would ignore something such as the fallen book, but there is another cause and effect to consider. Those who have been besieged with violence (media or otherwise) can also develop the opposite response - one of heightened sensitivity which could make a student overly cautious of others. In such case the child may have been wary of doing anything other than the response they saw from the authority figure - the teacher. The teacher ignored it, so outwardly they did the same rather than risk disapproval.
Neither of those causes, when taken to an extreme is a desired human response.
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This. There is always something deeper under the surface; it's too easy to use the media and/or other things as a scapegoat for whatever is going on instead of actually finding out why this happened. I play "violent" videogames.The first game I played was Mortal Kombat, and I was four!!! The only thing it did for me was get me interested in martial arts, though even at that age, I knew that you can't rip your face off and blow fire at people. XD XD XD
What some people are too ignorant to see when it comes to games at least is that we play them because, if it is something like GTA, we are quite aware that we will get arrested if we do the great majority of the stuff you can do in those games. Hell, you can even get arrested in GTA!!! XD Also, I'm sure most people playing mafia related games know that it's probably not as glamorous or whatever in real life, and it's not something they actually want to be involved in either.
Basically, the media has nothing to do with it, rather the person's morality; in the end, it is your choice whether you actually do something or not.