The American media (video games and music etc) affect children

Thank you for your arguments. When you said "Hitler saved Germany. It was like America today.", I think that you didn't read the other parts of my argument. I said "Hitler, despite his amazing ability to debate and his skills in politics, he was a bit insane." I included his success and skills in the political world, but mainly focused on a lot of the bad things he did. ------------------------------------------------------------------- For the next part, you said, "Now this is the irony kicks in. If you lived back enough to see old movies, if the movie swore once,(I'm not really wanting to Google it) it was a R rated movie. Why is that? Well, we get used to it. We can watch it and think nothing of it." I happen to know, own, and watch many movies from the 1970's and such that are rated PG and contain many words and references neither me nor my father expected to hear. It included drug use, explicit language and some blood and gore. If anything, America has become more aware of the growing violence and is trying to stop it. Violence that has been started from bad parenting, growing up in a bad environment, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd part, you said "It's not luck. Remember this is CHILDREN we're talking about. If you want Con Jr. to be a angel, you need to as such." Again, not entirely true. There is some luck to the child game. If I wanted my kid to be an angel, It doesn't truly matter how I act or what I do. If I encourage him to do what I do, then yes, he will most likely follow my path. If I am a bad parent and, say, beat him regularly or just treat him horribly, he may decide to get revenge on me by showing me how to be a good parent. He may decide to grow up as a horrible human being full of anger toward me. It all depends on what HE decides. America's youth is getting dumber by the generation, so it's harder to find good people and decent kids. But I for one am a one of the good kids. I have lived around drugs, violent/bad media, and bad kids. I have not done a single drug, not been influenced by the media, and not followed the bad kids path. My dad is a good person and tries to keep me away, but exposure to these things is almost imminent. If there is any influence from bad media and such, it is because of stupid kids and the result of parents not pushing them hard enough. Now, as for toddlers and babies... What parent in their right mind would show their children bad media? Maybe not babies, but toddlers will probably be influenced by bad media. If they are shown this at a young age and continue to be exposed to it, then yes, some influence is almost imminent, but only because the parents allowed their children to be exposed to it at such a young age. There is a reason for movie and video game ratings. The reason being that influence in children can be possible if exposed to bad/violent media, but as kids age, they are less easily influenced from bad things. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th and final part, you said "Thats because your not under certain conditions. If a certain violent person gets a certain emotion like stress he might do something unlawful. Then that starts a cycle. Think. If you were a bad person, you'll might raise a rotten apple." How do you know this "certain violent person" wasn't born with some disease that hinders learning, or brings out violence? Maybe he is bipolar. You also say it starts a cycle. Unconnected with your last comment in the quote, I take that as me seeing someone rob a bank, and then me going and robbing a bank, just because he did it. Connected to your last comment, I kinda explained that in the 3rd part. But even if I, as a parent, raise my kid "well", he may rebel against my good teachings and do wrong using reasons to blame me such as "You never let me do anything" or "My friends get to do it! Why can't I?". ------------------------------------------------------------------- What I'm trying to say is, it is not necessarily the media's fault, it is the parent's fault for allowing the child to watch/participate in these things. We provide ratings on our media because we are trying to fight bad influence and hope that parents will go along with the ratings. They are there for the protection of the children. Also, please add something for me to argue, don't just pick parts of my argument and comment on them. Thanks.