If violence in films doesn’t promote violence, why did they ban smoking in movies?
Please explain your rationale for such an inane comment.
Excellent point.
Back in 1970, smoking advertisements were banned on TV, so the companies put product placement in all the movies. Everyone smoked, or drank beer or sodas with the name on the can or pack clearly visible.
Has something changed now to not show smoking in movies?
Only psychopaths will use fictional violence in movies or games as an excuse to murder innocent people. We’re human beings—not animals. We know the difference between real violence and fictional violence, no matter how “graphic.”
And violence done by righteous people for righteous reasons is good. Good soldiers, good police and all other good Americans know it.
Children of the past who grew up to be righteous and caring adults said, “Let’s play cops and robbers! Bang, bang! You’re dead! Let’s play army next!” We’re better than the counter-culture that advanced so much against our freedoms and thoughtfulness.
I’m a baby boomer who long ago saw the light of the generations before ours and followed it. American exceptionalism, yes. Realizing our superiority to animals with our ability to reason and change, yes.
Violent movies and firearms don’t make the maniacs or make them murder others. They should have had spankings, when they were small and first trying to rebel against paternal authority and disrespect it.
A devastatingly good point. People getting blown away constitutes a PG-13 rating, while a character smoking pushes into an R. It's a mad world!