Reality Shows Are Harmful

First of all, this argument is completely plagiarized. Con gave no credit to the source (Which I have found.) http://www.npr.org... Plagiarism, especially in a debate, is not acceptable. Crediting a source, and building your argument off that source is alright if you credit your source, but using the source as your argument, and even worse not crediting the source itself? That alone should be enough to cause you to lose this debate, but I will point out the holes in your argument anyways. "After they watched one episode, people were asked to do a separate task that measured aggression. The goal was to hit a keyboard button as quickly as possible. Participants believed they were racing against someone in another room and whoever won would get to blast the other person with a loud, shrill sound. Gibson and his team took notes on how long participants wanted to blast the sound and how loud they turned the volume up. "It turns out those who had watched Jersey Shore or Real Housewives actually gave louder, longer blasts after watching those shows than those who watched the more violent crime dramas," Apparently, some people call this aggression. Y' know what I call it? Human behavior. Humans are animals. This is a fact. When one animal dominates the other, they often celebrate, as do humans. Let's take Canada's victory in ice hockey in the 2010 Winter Olympics as an example. In the link I am about to provide, please skip to 2:15:30 for the time. In that video was the final hockey match between Canada and the USA. At the time I asked you to go to, the winning goal was scored. Immediately, the team celebrates. They celebrate themselves and the fact that they won. They were clearly happy over beating someone else, over showing that they are the superior. While yes, they did go on to shake their hands and were good sportsmen, but still, they were very happy. This isn't unique to the Canadian Men's hockey team, no. Humans do this all the time. When A person wins a one dollar bet, something as small as one dollar, they will feel pretty dominant. When you win a board game, you're gonna feel a wave of happiness. This is human behavior. Celebrating is an animalistic side of human behavior. So is you win a race like you described, of course you're gonna hold it for longer! You've just won! You are superior! That is just how our brains are wired. Second, you and this article seem to think that because a few people acted aggressive, the same logic apples to ALL 7 billion people on the planet. Science shows us that the same thing never happens twice. Event B may be similar to Event A, maybe only one minor thing was changed, but that doesn't make event A and B to be the same. Each human is unique and will react differently to victory. Even if Reality Shows cause aggression (Which it doesn't, as I just proved), it would only cause aggression in SOME people. Not all. The results of this study does not define all of society. Finally, the same study that was done has been repeated over and over and over, video games and countless other things. "Annual trends in video game sales for the past 33 years were unrelated to violent crime both concurrently and up to four years later. Unexpectedly, monthly sales of video games were related to concurrent decreases in aggravated assaults and were unrelated to homicides. Searches for violent video game walkthroughs and guides were also related to decreases in aggravated assaults and homicides two months later. Finally, homicides tended to decrease in the months following the release of popular M-rated violent video games." "Finding that a young man who committed a violent crime also played a popular video game, such as Call of Duty, Halo, or Grand Theft Auto, is as pointless as pointing out that the criminal also wore socks." {1} This is my point. While this specific article is about video games, the same logic can apply to reality shows. Just because a show has people being obnoxious, aggressive jerks doesn't make people who watch them the same. A person who watched a show held a button for a while. So what? As my source said, it's as pointless as pointing out the persons socks. Thanks for this debate, and giving me a chance to debate after 7 months. Vote con. {1} http://www.gamespot.com...