Murder mysteries on television Options

[lovescream]

Mhm, excuse me if this topic has been made before. I haven't been in debate lately.

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Well, you see on Court TV and some other television programs that they show murder mysteries. If you don't know, then it's like a show where they tell you about some really big murder case and how they solved who killed who.
This question came up in my mind a few days ago: Should those shows be cancelled?
In my thoughts, I think yes, it should.
Why?
Because the program tells you HOW the person murders that person and WHAT exactly they did. If a serial killer is watching this, it could create some very brilliant ideas for them.
But the police solved this kind of murder already. What's the point of a killer copying what they saw on TV about a crime?
Well, chances are, they could watch more than one and then figure out a greater way to kill someone. >.> It's a possibility.

[fameONE]

TV is wonderful medium for exploration of your own mind. I'm sure a deranged sociopath living in the basement of his mother's backwoods home understands this as well. The difference between he and I, is that I'm not emotionally and mentally unstable so an episode of Law & Order in which the killer is effectively and intelligently targeting his victims would do nothing to my psyche. Where as this crazy mutha in the backwoods would light up like a pagan fertility symbol (I mean, Christmas tree) and go on a killing spree and, quite possibly, get away with dozens of murders or rapes.

What's my point? It further adds to the dreck of television and the media in general. Just as a 12 year old girl can see Britney Spears giving a lapdance in a music video and get an ingenius idea to perform fellatio under the stairs after school, a religious fanatic can watch CNN and decide to construct a car bomb to kill those of another religion.

Should they be taken off the airwaves? Hell NyesO. Take them off the air and violate our rights or leave them on and violate our minds. Suck on that pro-choice.

[XoJennaoX]

TV is wonderful medium for exploration of your own mind. I'm sure a deranged sociopath living in the basement of his mother's backwoods home understands this as well. The difference between he and I, is that I'm not emotionally and mentally unstable so an episode of Law & Order in which the killer is effectively and intelligently targeting his victims would do nothing to my psyche. Where as this crazy mutha in the backwoods would light up like a pagan fertility symbol (I mean, Christmas tree) and go on a killing spree and, quite possibly, get away with dozens of murders or rapes.

If you are a sociopath there is more than just these shows that can set you off. We
would have to take most everything off the air to ensure that, well maybe everything except reality shows. If you are going to kill somebody, you are going to kill somebody (sooner or later) reguardless of a show....the only difference would be the way in which you go about doing it. True we may be breeding smarter criminals, but in the same manner we are breeding smarter scientists, who join a forensic department because they take an interest in the shows. Both have been proven to have happened.

Now your example, a murderer that is smart enough to get away with dozens of murders and rapes will not be stupid enough to use an idea from a t.v show, considering most cases are solved within 30 minutes of the programing. That would make for a stupid criminal, and we still have plenty of them. And you must remember that these shows are dramatized in favor of the criminal anyway, so to just use some pointers from these shows would hardly insure you would be getting away with murder. A smart criminal would know better, and a dumb sociopath will be set off by just about anything and most likely get caught, so we cannot blame a crime show for that. But what about the other 90% of crime? The common criminal is probably too cracked up to even watch or understand this kind of programing. Since these criminals are still leaving gloves or condoms at the scene of their crimes, this proves most criminals will probably never get it.

Should they be taken off the airwaves? Hell NyesO. Take them off the air and violate our rights or leave them on and violate our minds. Suck on that pro-choice.

Television has become America's obsession, it you havn't noticed. Once you decide to take off intelligent programs in hopes that criminals will stay stupid (which is a far cry from the truth), you simultaneously deprive non-crimnals of learning anything through television entertainment. Yes, so lets take these shows off the air and allow reality t.v to take over and rot the minds of America's youth for future generations. Then we would truely be letting criminals get away with murder.