In today’s society, the younger generation finds violence to be a non-event. The younger the person is, the more violence he or she has been exposed to. These days, to see a person shot and killed on television doesn’t faze anyone. A five year-old and his parents could be watching the same show where a man is b

rutally beat to death and neither the parents nor the child would have any sort of reaction.

Another large dose of endless violence can be found in movies. While movies are more regulated, or are supposed to be, and are in a controlled environment, they are still viewed by a large audience including children of all ages. The rating system on movies helps control the viewing audience to an extent. The movie theaters can only do so much to keep under-aged kids out of rated R movies. The rest is up to the parents. How many times do you see a parent either buying tickets to a rated R movie for their underage child and his or her friends or taking them in themselves? Also, there is the fact that not only rated R movies contain violence. There is plenty in PG-13 and some in PG movies. Yet people aren’t carded to see any of these. Not only that, but the boundaries for content are beginning to stretch further and further. Some of the graphic scenes in some PG-13 movies were not long ago only found in rated R shows. Why is this? Is it safe to say that as a society we are actually beginning to enjoy violence? You make the decision.

The final point to finding violence in multimedia lies in the world of videogames. Up until just recently there was no rating for the games played primarily by children and teenagers. People had, relatively, no clue as to what the games contained beyond looking at the box. Granted, not all video games contain violence, but the ones that do seem to have endless amounts. In some, it even seems as though the point is to see how large of a body count you can get. If you knew that your seven year-old son was playing such a game would it bother you? With today’s technologies the realism of the graphics is incredible. It is so real looking, in fact, that some describe newer games as “playing a movie.”

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