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 Apr 29 2008, 01:54 PM
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 Sing to Me  Group: Member Posts: 1,825 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,808  |
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? |
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Apr 30 2008, 07:00 AM
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 (′ ･ω･｀) Group: Official Designer Posts: 6,179 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 72,477 |
I personally don't like violence, and find slapstick jokes pretty damn boring and most of the time cliche. I don't know why people would find it fun? Maybe it has something to do with the psychological effects of watching someone fall over and break their nose, it makes them feel good because they're not the one falling over. That's what I've thought of, but I'm sure it makes no sense.
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Comptine Violence is fun Apr 29 2008, 01:54 PM
eeonz We had this in the Uk about 2-3 years back. It... Apr 29 2008, 02:08 PM Etherias I agree with eeonz: Parenting or the lack of, if m... Apr 29 2008, 02:22 PM Gearbox I think people are just stupid and/or attention wh... Apr 29 2008, 02:39 PM
mipadi QUOTE(Gearbox @ Apr 29 2008, 03:39 PM) I ... Apr 29 2008, 06:58 PM karmakiller I think a source that's overlooked is the reso... Apr 29 2008, 08:23 PM jesusisthebestthing My question is simple: Why do people, or Americans... Apr 29 2008, 10:12 PM Comptine Actually, yes. Because honestly, that is NOT that ... Apr 30 2008, 01:34 AM jesusisthebestthing QUOTE(Comptine @ Apr 30 2008, 02:34 AM) A... Apr 30 2008, 09:38 PM Insurmountable I think as more time passes by us all, the media g... May 1 2008, 09:03 AM |
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