Once the intended victims of video slaughter were mostly gangsters or aliens. These killings are supposed to be taken as harmless jokes. But the bottom line is that the young are being invited to enjoy the killing of vulnerable people picked at random. This looks like the final lesson in a course to eliminate any lingering resistance to killing. Pilots train on flight simulators, drivers on driving simulators, and now we have our children on murder simulators.
TV plays a part as well.
According to the American Psychological Association, the average child will witness at least 8,000 murders on TV by the time he or she leaves elementary school, along with more than 100,000 assorted other acts of violence. The Journal of the American Medical Association published the definitive study on the impact of TV violence. The research demonstrated what happened in numerous nations after television made its appearance. In every nation, region, or city with television, there is an immediate explosion of violence on the playground, and within 15 years there is a doubling of the murder rate. Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.