When you watch TV, you vegetate. TV is a passive medium, you sit, eyes open mouth open if you are of a lesser stock. You take in all that is thrown at you with only two options change the channel and take a chance that you will something “important”(like the people who were taking a whiz when JR was shot) or you can turn it off. No one turns it off, ever, some people …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…but not all of them are. You are exposed to violence through TV and through video games, the major difference doesn’t come from whether you absorb the violence passively, or whether you participate in it. The true difference is in the parenting, our parents there for their children to tell them that violence is an impulse that cannot be expressed physically against other people? Violence is inherent, so we need an outlet for it.