Violence is fun, What is to blame? Options

[Comptine]

If you search 'girl fight' on YouTube, you get more than 70,000 hits. You search 'street fight', you get around 126,000 hits.

Recently, authorities said that teens are playing a new game where they walk up to a random person and slap/smack them in the face, aka "Happy Slapping". Happy Slap produces 5000+ hits on Youtube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slap

Increasing more and more kids are posting violent acts on Youtube or Myspace and view these attacks as 'funny' or 'pranks'.

And most recently, the Lakeland, Florida attack of a teenager girl by 6 other girls have gained national attention because they videotaped it for the intent of posting it up on the internet.

Why has this desensitization been happening in our country? Is it because of movies? Television? Games like GTA? Or violent music?

[eeonz]

We had this in the Uk about 2-3 years back. It'll die down in a few months when they make some high profile arrests.

Ah, alwas to jump to the "computer games and rock music" argument Could be anything really. Class frustration, boredom, lack of sports exercise to take out frustration, peer pressure, low morals (link to parenting there)lots of things will make people turn to violence or risk taking. As for being desensitized, I don't believe thats happened. You can play violent PC games and watch gory films all day, but you'll still be violently sick when you see your first road traffic accident in real life.