The government should control the amount of violence in films and on television in order to decrease violent crimes in society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It has been suggested that the government should control the amount of

violence

in films and on

television

in order to decrease the rate of violent crimes in society. It would certainly be easy to garner support for

such

a move, but solely

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choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

adopting

such

a policy will do little to effect social change. The question has often been raised as to what extent media

violence

actually influences

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

. One can readily recount incidences of a child or young person viewing some violent

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

in a movie or on

television

and

then

trying to reproduce that situation in real life. It is hard to estimate the amount of

violence

which can be traced back to

television

shows or

movies but

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movies, but

the existence of

such

incidences is undeniable. Logically, removing

this

violent content should directly reduce the incidence of

such

violence but

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violence, but

this

relationship between violent media content and violent

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

is not so simple. While much has been recorded

of

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by

young people imitating media

violence

, little has been directed to the influence of sad

violence

on those who are able to differentiate the imaginary situations in movies and on

television

from reality. If one were to find no similar

relationship it

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relationship, it

could be immediately surmised that the most direct solution is increased supervision of young people, and not the modification of media content. The degree to which people are influenced by what they see in the media depends directly on how

responsibly they

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responsibly, they

are educated about the relationship of fiction and reality. Watching comedies

does not transform

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do not transform

one into a comedian, and watching violent movies does not directly make one violent. Rather than taking crude half measures to repair complex social problems, more focus must be placed on the nature of interpersonal relationships, social responsibility and personal accountability.