Gratuitous Violence anyone?
Submitted by Rant Man on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 10:57am. 
Has anyone pondered how we arrived at a time when gratuitous sex and violence is a day-to-day feature of life? Turn on the TV, go to the movies or buy a PC game and the thing that strikes you immediately is how did we get here?
The popularity of maim, kill and torture movies like 'Hostel', the free availability of videos on the Internet that once might be described as 'snuff' movies that show people being killed and the volume of freely available hard core pornography must surely be having an impact on society?
It wasn't long ago that some of the PC games now available for teenagers would have caused incredible controversy. Not now, it seems we simply now accept games depicting murder, drug dealing, crime and sex as simply fantasies.
But how did this happen? How did this all inadvertently creep up on us to the point that for many people all of this is acceptable? How is it that mainstream society now simply shrugs its shoulders and accepts it? When will the backlash begin?
I just want to know!
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Mary Whitehouse
Guess you didn't look around the site much to be making that rather silly comment?
Daily Mail Reader? Secret love child of Mary Whitehouse?
The reason that "we simply now accept games depicting murder, drug dealing, crime and sex as simply fantasies" is probably because that's what they are. Nobody has *ever* managed to prove that people with a propensity for violent video games and movies are any more or less likely to be violent in real life.
The technology available now just makes it all more accessible and seem much more realistic. If you want to take it to extremes was Pac-Man the first drug taking video game, all those pills and the shocking performance enhancing 'power pill'?
I would agree that much of the stuff out there is tasteless and designed to shock (but that's good for the box office right?), that doesn't mean you have to watch it.
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