Do kids imitate what they see on screen, cinema, videogames, etc. and if so should we stop it

HELLO! and I thank you for taking this debate, may the best and most logical argument win. First You said : First, children who played violent video games were found to be more aggressive in the next months, regardless of nationality. Yes this may be true but your using generalization meaning that every kid does so. In fact only a handful of children who played violent video games were to show aggressive behavior. And another fact, we are not discussing the fact if children become aggressive we are discussing the fact if they imitate what they see on television,cinema, video games, etc. Therefore it does not matter.Next you said: Although the studies in the referenced Meta-analysis likely used adults, given the similarities in reactions to various social situations between children and adults, I’d suggest that evidence of video-game-induced violence in adults could also be used as evidence of video-game-induced violence in children. [2]What it sounds like you're trying to say is that the aggressive behavior in adults can be imported to their children or children in general. This is a "monkey see monkey do"sort of this thing, as if a child uses a curse word because she heard her parent use it. They are doing it, but they do not know what they are doing. psychological behavior can be linked to parents just by asking a few questions. But a child des not go out and commit murder because he/she saw in a movie.Now onward you then state: The second part of this debate, “Should we stop it,” is a moral decision. However, I believe this is easily answered by asking ourselves if we want to predispose large numbers of the future generations to more violent behavior. I think any rational person would agree that this is not something we want for the future. Under a utilitarian stance, as the benefit of violent video games (short term pleasure) does not even come close to cancelling out the potential negative outcomes (a higher propensity for war, violent crimes, overall rudeness, crudeness, and touchable), I suggest that, if it can be established with reasonable certainty that violent video games, movies, and television shows cause more violent behavior in children, they should be withheld from them.Okay you have a good point but within the media they put simple warnings such a rating whether it is rated R movie or rated M game. they state that in those they have violence and crude behavior of sorts. this on the simple fact if the parents think that their children are mature enough to watch these. by that I do not mean if they are old enough but they can comprehend what they saw and understand why it is wrong. if they have moral values then they can understand the value of a persons life and go to seek to harm. the psychological definition of aggression is behavior leading to self-assertion; it may arise from innate drives and/or a response to frustration, and may be manifested by destructive and attacking behavior, by hostility and obstructionism, or by self-expressive drive to mastery. An innate drive is our instincts so to speak and we cannot control our instincts and as to the response to frustration is something only the individual person can choose on the spot and they would not have time to think of what happened on last nights law&order. and the attacking behavior can come from the environment though a tv and movie may go with it I see no reason hatred would manifest within one self because of television.