Making a Reasoned Judgement: Influence of Violent Movies
Media nowadays has a great effect on kids. It influences their way of seeing the world and interacting with it. Many movies, videogames and TV shows have been accused of influencing kids with extremely graphic visuals of violence, therefore suggesting the idea that murder, physical harassment and deadly attacks are an unavoidable issue on our society. However in order to relate them with this claims, there must be some kind of evidence review. In our thinking skills class we analyzed the case of two boys who had killed a fellow partner. Different sources argued about the role of the movie Childs Play 3. After carefully going through corroborative, meaning in favor, and conflicted evidence, meaning against; as well as the weight and quality of each of the two sides, taking into account the credibility of each one of them; we arrived to the following conclusion: Analyzing all evidence, strong and neutral sources have expressed their opinion and conduct research in this topic. We, fin...