The Media's role vs The People Around You in the Development of Personality (continued)

and so it continues, should be fun. By predetermined points I'm going to presume that you mean arguments that we are carrying forward. They are as such. Rebuttals for mass media hypnosis arguments 1)How somebody acts under hypnosis is dependant on why they were hypnotised, as we have agreed that a person cannot be hypnotised against their will. They are fully capable of disagreeing with something they are told whilst under hypnosis so this cannot be used to brainwash, just getting that out of the way, I doubt that PRO will wish to contest this point. 2) I can agree that peers tend to be full of fallacies, it doesn't take a genius to realise that so too is mass media. mass media is written and presented by people, who will hold the same fallacies as the people around you. In addition, you will often hang out with people with similar beliefs and interests to you. therefore similar fallacies to you, and as a result the existence of these fallacies will not result in you disregarding the beliefs of your peers. Arguments about the incorrectness of peers' beliefs are therefore void unless you can provide evidence that the subject would use these fallacies to lose belief in his peers without losing belief in mass media, which are subject to the same fallacies. Rebuttals for interpersonal relationship arguments (summary) 1) Peers have a greater effect on your personality in adolescence than your parents. Agreed, but this offers nothing against my side of the debate. 2) People are influenced media, but if the influence goes against their beliefs and tries to change their personality a person is more likely to change the channel than their opinion Learning styles are as (if not more) important as (than) attention paid when considering how well a person adapts to information they receive, specifically, an interpersonal learner will both pay more attention to their peers than a television and will be more believing of they things they hear from them. Intrapersonal learners tend to follow the ideas given to them by respectable figures of authority, i.e. teachers, and be sceptical of all else including the information gotten through media. Though I accept that intrapersonal learners are more likely to be influenced by interpersonal learners by media, I argue that the people around them would still have a greater effect in this case. People with similar points of views find it easy to become friends and stimulate growth in one another's personalities. purely comparative arguments 1) I have copied all of this in as I don't wish to summarise it for risk of losing my analogy I would argue that you do not know why the children wished to go to McDonald's but to think of it this way. If the commercial to your children to go to there but all of their friends told them repeatedly that it was nasty and unfilling, would they still want to go? or would they just agree with their friends to better fit in with the people around them. People are naturally social, this is shown repeatedly by the way groups of people will stand as one out of the way, almost as one entity, but very few will step forward and stand for what they believe in alone. in fact these people are so rare that they become famous for their efforts in many cases, I ask how many people were willing to sit back and accept apartheid until a small group of people stood up for their equality. It is a shameful fact of humanity that we will sit back and allow wrong things to happen but i argue that a man on TV telling you that it's wrong will be no match for your friends and family telling you to do something about it, as long as they are also willing to act.