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Should there be any limits on the amounts of violence in TV, Movies and Games?
Poll ended at 04 Jan 2015, 2:48 pm
No. 28%  28%  [ 5 ]
Nothing can be done now! Pandora's box has been opened! Violence in entertainment will inspire more and more violence until society comes to resemble The Purge 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Censorship is a slippery slope, etc. 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
Ban it all for all I care. I don't watch this garbage. 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
If it's true that screen violence inspires real violence, then allowable screen violence should be pulled back a bit from where it is now, but only after the finale's of Walking Dead and GOT. 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
Fictional violence doesn't inspire real violence to any degree sufficient to worry about. 33%  33%  [ 6 ]
Total votes : 18

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17 Nov 2014, 2:00 pm

Nebogipfel wrote:
There seems to be a lot of violence in entertainment these days.


Because the Iliad, Dede Korket, the Norse Sagas and the Talmud are all entirely free from violence.

People like violence. I'm people. I like violence. :twisted:


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