Some people believe that violence on television and in computer games has a damaging effect on the society. Other deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behaviour. What is your opinion ?

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think that society is being damaged
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the
violence
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shown in the
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industry
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, but how much impact it has on the audience depends on the mental health of each individual. Many others think differently a
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deny the significance of
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violence
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affecting
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’s
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since there
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seem to be a strong connection between the two. Personally, I can agree with the latter, as it counts with the most amount of scientific research and evidence. On the one hand, society nowadays is exposed to
violence
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both in the T.V.
entertainment
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industry
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and the videogame
industry
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and it´s truthfully right but the impact that it leaves on society´s
behaviour
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seems to be related to the mental health status of
people
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living in the society. To put an example, U.S. studies on the cause of violent crime show that about 60% of the criminals committing
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suffer from some type of mental issue which can be correlated to the crime rather than being previously exposed to some kind of violent
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.
On the other hand
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, several
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think that
violence
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exposed
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on TV. and
videogames
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video games
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doesn´t
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correlate to a significant impact on society´s
behaviour
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, which scientifically speaking is true, because everyone in the world is exposed to
violence
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both in
videogames
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video games
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and on TV. but
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violence
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the violence
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rate globally
doesn´t
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seem to increase. To set an example, several research studies have been done correlating video games with an increase in violent crime rates and violent
behaviour
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, and all of them have lacked statistical significance with results that show greater values of 0.05 in significance (Meaning not relevant and not correlated in the statistical point of view).
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,
people
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don´t seem to commit violent crimes
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the fact of being exposed to
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on
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TV
or in video games but rather from having some kind of mental illness.
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has not shown relevant scientific information on the relationship between
violence
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in the
entertainment
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industry
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and violent crimes committed. In my opinion,
violence
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in shows, news, or video games
doesn´t
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correlate to an increase in violent
behaviour
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unless there exists a mental health issue
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that can be triggered by exposure to
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type of violent
entertainment
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Topic Vocabulary:
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  • desensitize
  • catalyst
  • predisposed
  • harmless outlet
  • distinguish
  • controlled environments
  • empirical research
  • minimal or no direct correlation
  • socio-economic status
  • predisposition
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