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By nature when babies first begin to learn, they do so by imitating other people's behaviors. That is to say, "children are born ready to imitate adult behavior" because "much of human behavior is learned by observing another perso

Furthermore, in a resent incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of her body numerous times. As a result, the child died from being left out in the cold because she was not able to move due to her injuries. Later the officials had discovered that the barbaric incident was due to the fact that the children had watched the violent cartoon Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The children thought that the girl would later get up because in the show the characters never die. Consequently, the show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was canceled throughout Norway. In addition, YTV, a youth cable channel in Canada and also other television networks has recently canceled the show because it did not meet their standards.

There are many other examples that confirm that people imitate violence scenes on television. For instance, the cartoon Beavis and Butthead on MTV in the United States was widely criticized for depicting the cartoon characters shaped like cigarettes. The cartoon also gained national attention when a young five year old fan from the United States set fire to his house after watching the show. This was due to the fact that in one of the episodes, Beavis and Butthead were going around setting fires to houses.

In fact, in 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMB) did a study to conclude if violence on television increases hostile behaviors in people. They also determined that people will imitate the violent acts seen in the media. In addition, the NIMB reported "that television violence causes aggression, and that a distorted world presented on television causes heavy viewers to see the real world as more hostile and scary than it really is."

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