Violence on Television

Violence on Television

Many people believe that television violence has a negative effect on society because it promotes violence. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response.

Television violence refers to all violence appearing on TV screens and involves the act

of injuring or killing someone or the threat of injuring or killing someone. It can also relate to any physical force exerted for the purpose of violating damaging, or abusing. Many television shows are infamous for their violent content such as, murders, bloodshed, explosions, disaster and death. The shows often demonstrate hitting, stabbing, screaming, thus expressing negativity. This destruction shown on television has a deep impact on the viewers, especially children as it make them become, immune or numb to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems and imitate the violence they observe on television from their super hero characters. Considering the impressionable years they are in, children are most vulnerable to violence on TV.

Children are the most impressionable out of all people. They learn from what they see and hear around them. This is why violence on television is especially harmful to their developing minds. When they are over exposed to too much violence they becoming desensitized to violence. It decreases their concerns about victims' suffering, and their sensitivity to violent acts. When someone is desensitized to violence, they see nothing wrong with causing it themselves. This is the last thing our society needs. This means children without empathy for other. A study done by The National Television Violence by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found that, the average child who watches 2 hours of cartoons a day may see nearly 10,000 violent incidents each year. This makes them violent and aggressive in real life with their peers. No wonder, impressionable young minds are falling prey to the element of...