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malthaussen

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3. Well, if you take the violence out of our entertainment, how much is left?
Sat May 3, 2014, 09:59 AM
May 2014

Might there be another issue involved here, that our culture exalts violence to the point of a religion? So long as "strength" is defined as the ability to impose one's will on another, people will fantasise about this "strength," and some will cross the line to actually trying to be "strong."

I wonder, however, how much indulging fantasy by watching some violent "entertainment" serves to sublimate it, and how much such indulgence tends to evoke emulation? It would be nice to have some data about this, but it would have to be a long-term experiment and not a quickie.

-- Mal

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