The entertainment media plays an extremely powerful role in the formation of values and morals. Television violence affects youngsters of all ages, all socioeconomic levels and all levels of intelligence. They are being fed a steady flow of death, killings, blood and other grotesque acts. These disruptive viewings can eventually take a toll on a person and the way they view life someday. For instance, TV cartoons feature dehumanized characters, such as Transformers and the Ninja Turtles, whom are engaged in destructive acts of violence and mutilation.
Children watch and are enthralled with excitement and the beauty of the kill.
Later they graduate to TV programs and movies that depict actual live human beings killing or degrading others. Inevitably, some youngsters will actually someday imitate the brutality in real life. For example, youngsters do indeed mimic many of the violent acts and behavior of cartoon characters, such as Beavis and Butt-head. He set his house ablaze and his younger sister was killed. Inevitably they were squashed to death.