Nope. If one is true, the other following the same methodology logically follows.
There is no switch in the brain that says one is OK and the other not. One can work and the other doing the same thing wont.
Both are learning through visual stimulus. That is not arguable.
Both ‘teach’ us to perform a certain action or actions.
So if movies and video games cause violence, as stated above, show the millions of bodies that resulted from all the crazes psychos.
Show me the millions of musicians with Grammys and Billboard multi platinum albums.
Show me the millions of Superbowl winning quarterbacks.
Show me the millions of Iron Chefs.
Show me the millions of whatever that movies cause.
You can’t. Because Movies or Video games do not ‘cause’ anything. Lack of morality combined with action sans consequence is the answer you are looking for.
Because while you can point to people everywhere who claim whatever devil made’em do it, it comes back to one thing. They damn well wanted to.
And if you don’t believe that to be true and think every bit of my posts are wrong, here’s an easy test.
Go buy a Koran. Go to your nearest Mosque and pray. Then come back here and tell me you are ready to convert to Islam and fly planes into buildings.
Then I’ll believe movies and Video games ‘cause’ something.
I disagree with you on most points.
I am comfortable disagreeing with the half of America that think it permissable to kill unborn babies so adding you to the list won’t cost me one moment of sleep.
And your bringing the Koran is ironic since it is used to recruit violent ,mostly black, inmates while they are incarcerated .
40 years ago my neighbors boys found and read their father’s stash of crime novels glorifying mafia-types.
The father also unthinkingly bought a number of cheap semi-auto .22 rifles. for his sons.
And one morning father was shot to death in his bed and mother shot to death coming to investigate.
Even if ,as you say, the seed for violence is already there, we DON’T have to water and fertilize it by glorifying gratuitous ,bloody violence.
Children imitate. It is how much learning takes place.Adults should not set bad examples.You don’t feed a child’s body poisonous food,why would you want to poison his mind ?
You cannot play in a dung heap and not get dirty.
Glorifying evil through books,movies, and games isn’;t going to improve any society.
Porn made me a sex maniac.
I watch it morning, noon, and night... at work, in the bathroom, showering, driving.... my theme song should be: This.