Mass Media plays a greater role than the people around you in the development of your personality

Rebuttals for hypnosis arguments 1) That as it may be a person will very rarely watch a show that they are not interested in, especially with the tons of different channels and therefore choice afforded to them by the wide range of media. they will be happy to turn on the tv, sit down and relax however why would they take suggestions that they don't agree with when they have the choice of just changing the channel. therefore it implies an agreement to take suggestions, but only those which a person is already comfortable with. 2) "makes the suggestion that people would naturally act like chicken or pretend they are stuck to certain object on their own free will" - I believe this suggestion to be incorrect on your behalf, he says that "volunteers during Stage Hypnosis Show, which is for entertainment purposes only, will typically go along with the Stage Hypnotist"s suggestions as long as it is all in good fun and for entertainment purposes." this does not show that the person is exhibiting normal behaviour, but that they are willing to exhibit abnormal behaviour for the entertainment of themselves and others. "In FAQ 6, he says that a person will be awake during the hypnosis, [...] I need to wake up, or I am awake." -Actually in FAQ 7 he gives the example of falling asleep as a possibility due to the patient being extremely relaxed, being relaxed however is not necessary, it only makes it much easier for the hypnosis to occur. Therefore falling asleep can not be considered directly the result of being hypnotised. he actually states in FAQ 7 "When you are hypnotized, you retain full control over your mind and your body." for this to be possible you must be awake. "FAQ 11, he claims that " His analyzing thinking mind (Conscious mind) is turned off [...] Why does the conscious mind need to be turned off? " - which he also refers to as "in a state of daydream type thinking", however you are more than capable of controlling a daydream so this would imply that the conscious mind does not need to be active to think about the events around you and react to them, i.e. think about what medium is telling you and disagree with it. "If the subject is fully awake, has full control over all of their actions, and is not susceptible to any suggestions outside of their own will, why even hypnotize them in the first place." - to rebut this I would like to use one of your own sources (https://youthradio.org...) which states that the effect of hypnosis is to focus the mind, by focusing on a problem you can work towards solving it much faster. it's the equivalent of concentrating during a debate, when the argument is difficult to rebut, look at it piece by piece and the counter argument will practically fall into place. focusing on a problem you want to fix in your life through hypnosis helps you to find all of the areas that you need to fix to bypass a much larger problem. "According to this article from successful parenting, the ability to think abstractly is present at age 12 and individuals are developing their ability to think abstractly" -I completely agree, and the ability to think abstractly would increase your ability to understand something, also focus without the ability to dissect a problem is almost completely useless for solving it. Therefore it makes perfect sense that the effects of hypnosis would be more successful when you have reached the age where you can think like this. in addition younger children are often extremely hyped, since an exited patient is harder to hypnotise than a relaxed one it would be much harder to maintain a hypnotic state with somebody under 12. Rebuttals for interpersonal relationship arguments 1) The very foundations of your moral standing would actually be set by your parents at ages under 5-6, where you spend much of your time attempting to copy them (In some extreme cases the foundations are completely replaced later on but this debate is on the "normal" childhood experience) in most cases this affects how the effects of your generation will influence your personality. in fact, since most people of a generation will be building off of the same foundations that their parents gave them the effect of a generation gap wouldn't be that different. "It actually proves my point more, now that I know it was a media suggestion that nearly everyone believes in." it was a hypothesis which was accepted to be correct. Where it came from does not affect whether or not a community will accept it in the modern world, only whether there is sufficient evidence to prevent effective counter proposals. 2) apologies for breaking this argument down to such a small rebuttal but I believe that the wording in this statement "This suggests that even peers are more influential the parents" would make it seem that the effect of peers, for which I am also arguing, is somehow a small effect; that the effects of parenting should so small as to be less than that of peers. however I argue that whilst the effect of peers is greater than that of the parents in many cases, it is also much stronger than that of mass media. 3) as above, you argue that one of the sides I argue for is greater than the other, not that either is less than mass media. 4) "Peer influence is selective. Meaning that a person has the conscious ability to choose which groups he hangs out with" -true, but as I stated in [Rebuttals for hypnosis arguments, 1] they are just as selective about what they watch and read, etc. so therefore the effect of mass media would be affected to the same degree. Further Arguments I would like to take [Rebuttals for interpersonal relationship arguments, 4] further and say that the variety of mass media that someone watches is, to a large part, dictated by the sort of people that they hang out with. where someone may be forced into "growing out of" their favorite movie, it is unlikely that a peer disliking the same person's favorite movie will result in them breaking off the friendship. to further this I would like to point out that the sort of people that the child will find themselves hanging out with will be dictated by their upbringing, even if it isn't in the way that the parents expected.