Don't know if Teletubbies is bad for kids unless you play the dvd nonstop untill the child tries to turn on that television inside its belly with a knife.
It seems like a bad show to me cause a lot of kids that are watching it are beginning to learn how to speak. And if they're mimicking what they see on that show, then they won't even be using real words to people. Obviously, the same applies here with parenting and not letting your kids watch it too much. But I would never let my child watch that show.
The point of that episode was that the parents were so focussed on Chinpokomon that they forgot parenting.
Wether or not Chinpokomon is non-sensical didn't matter.
(lol, love Southpark, can't figure out the point of the Super Adventure Club though)
You're right. That was the overall point of the episode. But I still think they were making commentary on how Pokemon had been rotting the brains of so many children cause it was so retarded. Kind of like in the same way Teletubbies was also bad for kids cause they didn't even use real words.
Remember that South Park episode Chinpokomon? In that episode, the parents are concerned about their kids watching the show and playing the games not because it was vulgar or violent, but just because it was incredibly stupid and non-sensical. I suppose a lot of games may be so, but I think a part of the rating system should consider the depth of the game and whether the its content is meaninful or not. But I understand that's pretty idealistic and those parameters would be way to subjective. But it's just a though I've had on and off about rating games.
Not really, the most of these things are passed on via genes and culture, only in some cases you can speak of "personal", for example phobias but even then they are most likely developed because of outside influence. (and in some cases also genetical)
Is not your personality shaped by a combinations of your genes as well as your environment? I don't get how what you're saying is any different than the point I made.
I believe that at birth, everyone is mentally the same unless they have some mental disabilities, and if such mental disablities do exist they are, at most, insinuated, but not created by, violence.
I personally do not believe that. I don't think you need to have a mental disability just to be mentally different than others. You don't even need to apply the nuances of variation to see that mental disabilities aside, no one is really the same at all mentally.
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Because I don't remember it. Because I have no evil thoughts on that subject. Because I don't want to kill anybody. Because I am still scared of blood and wounds in real life. And a lot of other indications of "normality". I am not crazy.No we just had different parents, different countries.
I'm sure one thing we can all agree on is that we were all raised differently. I was kind of sensitive growing up and if I saw someone being decapitated on television, or a women being raped, it didn't matter to me if it was all just an act; fiction as it were. I knew those things did exist in the real world and I would try to imagine what it might feel like to be decapitated and still surviving for just a few moments longer and being in shock, or as a women the physical pain one would endure as well as the nausea of being raped. And seeing those things at a young age, didn't help me become desensitized to those things. Being so unprepared to see those things and immature as I was, I didn't know how to contextualize such violence. Now when I see things like that, I have more experience and knowledge to put such things into context.
And since we were all raised differently, we will all probably raise our kids differently as well. I don't want to shelter my kids from reality at all. But nor do I want to be so liberal to let them watch whatever they want on the basis of not actually being real. In other words, I'll do what I can to educate them on the realities of the world, but at the same time, I will make attempts to make that education a steady-paced process that will continue as they get older.
Anything disturbing shall be unidentified. I have been rewatching many movies I saw during childhood, and I never remembered any of the gruesome or sexual parts from them. A child is disinterested in that stuff because he or she cannot identify it. In fact, they sooner he or she gets used to them, the better, so that you won't end up with a kid suddenly seeing someone naked and having a psychological breakdown because now they DO understand what it is but they NEVER saw it before...
Eh, that just sounds like an ultra liberal thing to say. I don't think we should underestimate how kids can perceive content. I also don't really believe there is such a thing as desensitization. I mean, if I found someone being decapitated as disturbing and nauseating, watching someone being decapitated over and over is not going to desensitize me to it. It will only make it worse.
Everybody is going to find different things disturbing, scary, or nauseating depending on what their personality is. Your argument doesn't convince me. It's not like you can't gradually explain to a child as they become older what things like sex and violence are without allowing them to watch gory movies or some porn. Does allowing them to watch porn sound too extreme? Of course. But so does not caring at all what your child is exposed to. And I know we won't be able to protect them from everything that might come along, but that doesn't mean we should have no standards as to what they can watch and play.
There is no such thing as content inappropriate for an age. All content is appropriate.
Well that's just where you and I differ. I'm proud of you though that you've never been disturbed by anything you've seen on television, movies, or video games as a child.
I'm not sure what else I can say about it. I think concerned people really shouldn't underestimate the parents of children to keep their kids from playing overtly violent games. Nor do I think we should put all our faith in the rating system either. Nor do I think a violent video game can induce a person into violence as if they were to commit a violence, they were likely predisposed toward it anyway, as goodguy stated.
If ever I have a child, my biggest concern about video games will simply be whether or not he/she becomes dumb and lethargic cause all they do is play video games. I may not be able to protect them from all the content that I think is inappropriate for their age, but I'm sure I'll be able to control the amount of time spent playing video games.
To disregard television as a means of public awarness is ludacris.
I never said i dislike a good story or entertainment or spectacle or any of those things. I only said i dislike them in programs with the intention of making people aware about certain things instead of having high viewratings.
I thought it was funny when the History Channel did that show about the Spartans and it just looked like a really cheap version of 300. And obviously the HC's versions was more accurate, but I couldn't help wonder why they would even try to reenact everything. It just looked too cheesy that all I could think about was how bad it looked as opposed to really paying attention to what they were talking about. I suppose that all depends on the viewer though.
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I ofcourse understand some things being simplified to reach a decent number of people interested in the particular topic, it certainly requires some kind of balance but informating should always outway for example entertainment for the sake of entertainment (i'm entertained by intellectual and professional programs, that obviously wasn't the entertainment i was talking about) in those particular publical programs.
Yeah, to me, Frontline is like the best tv drama out there. And it's all non-fiction.
That's debatable, Carloseus. Most earlier forms of television were a form of public utilities for the sake of informing people And just look at the patter televesion has taken since its inception. Sure there are good informative shows these days, even ones such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that combine information and entertainment. But for the most part, television is just shit now. In my opinion, about 95 percent of what's on tv is just unbearable and totally mindless.
But you make a valid point about shows like the History Channel and why they dramatize and reenact things. Cause I guess the average person does sort of need that bit of flare to get into history or to better remember it. I just find it to be really distracting.
Simple answer, don't watch tv. Television is entertainment, if you are above it then find a different medium.
If I find a show educational and informative, it is subsequently entertaining for me. But if a show is just entertaining that won't necessarily ever make it educational and informative.
Luckily for me, I do find most video games to be all these things. Many people who rarely or never play video games really underestimate just how enlightening a video game can be.
It's authentic and all, I'll give you that. But sometimes, especially when it comes to programs about WW2 there's an awful lot of flagwaving and praising of the American army/navy/air force. There's no shortage of shows dealing with the paranormal either, like the Loch Ness monster, Ailen sightings, mysterious cow deaths, doomsday dates etc. Quite fun to watch, indeed, but I question the scientific worth of them.
What bugs me a lot about the Hisory Channel is the way they constantly dramatize what they're talking about. I don't need to see two actors in cheap looking costumes in a poorly designed set discussing something I can't hear while the narrator of the show is actually talking about what the actors are pretending to discuss. Just give me photos or something and narrate over that. History Channel just tries to hard to make it entertaining, but all the fluff kind of is distracting I think. That's why I like the really dry PBS documentaries. They lack the flare, and that's the way I like it.
I also think Modern Marvels is a really boring show, but that's just me.
I learnt alot of vocabulary from Pokemon. I learnt history and how the world runs (economics and such) from Civilization and Age of Empires.
Hehe, I actually learned the word fane from Diablo and successfully used it once in a Scrabble game. Someone challenged me and they lost. They thought I was adding the e at the end just to reach the triple word score.
Well, if that's the topic you do decide to go with, I'd be happy to go over your drafts for you. If not, I could help you come up with some other good topics for an argumentative essay.
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I'm sure one thing we can all agree on is that we were all raised differently. I was kind of sensitive growing up and if I saw someone being decapitated on television, or a women being raped, it didn't matter to me if it was all just an act; fiction as it were. I knew those things did exist in the real world and I would try to imagine what it might feel like to be decapitated and still surviving for just a few moments longer and being in shock, or as a women the physical pain one would endure as well as the nausea of being raped. And seeing those things at a young age, didn't help me become desensitized to those things. Being so unprepared to see those things and immature as I was, I didn't know how to contextualize such violence. Now when I see things like that, I have more experience and knowledge to put such things into context.
And since we were all raised differently, we will all probably raise our kids differently as well. I don't want to shelter my kids from reality at all. But nor do I want to be so liberal to let them watch whatever they want on the basis of not actually being real. In other words, I'll do what I can to educate them on the realities of the world, but at the same time, I will make attempts to make that education a steady-paced process that will continue as they get older.
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Everybody is going to find different things disturbing, scary, or nauseating depending on what their personality is. Your argument doesn't convince me. It's not like you can't gradually explain to a child as they become older what things like sex and violence are without allowing them to watch gory movies or some porn. Does allowing them to watch porn sound too extreme? Of course. But so does not caring at all what your child is exposed to. And I know we won't be able to protect them from everything that might come along, but that doesn't mean we should have no standards as to what they can watch and play.
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I'm not sure what else I can say about it. I think concerned people really shouldn't underestimate the parents of children to keep their kids from playing overtly violent games. Nor do I think we should put all our faith in the rating system either. Nor do I think a violent video game can induce a person into violence as if they were to commit a violence, they were likely predisposed toward it anyway, as goodguy stated.
If ever I have a child, my biggest concern about video games will simply be whether or not he/she becomes dumb and lethargic cause all they do is play video games. I may not be able to protect them from all the content that I think is inappropriate for their age, but I'm sure I'll be able to control the amount of time spent playing video games.
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Yeah, to me, Frontline is like the best tv drama out there. And it's all non-fiction.
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But you make a valid point about shows like the History Channel and why they dramatize and reenact things. Cause I guess the average person does sort of need that bit of flare to get into history or to better remember it. I just find it to be really distracting.
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Luckily for me, I do find most video games to be all these things. Many people who rarely or never play video games really underestimate just how enlightening a video game can be.
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I also think Modern Marvels is a really boring show, but that's just me.
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