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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 2081528" data-attributes="member: 20239"><p>I was 8 years old when I saw <em>Conan the Barbarian</em> (at a drive-in theater no less <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> ) and I thought it rocked on toast.</p><p></p><p>The year before I saw <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> on tv for the first time and had the worst nightmares of my life for a week.</p><p></p><p>Kids get freaked out about strange things sometimes. As long as they have an involved and loving parent to help them through, those difficult times will be growing experiences that help them become good, well adjusted people. If a kid wants to pretend to slay imaginary monsters with a toy sword I think that's awesome. If the same kid starts hitting his friends with the sword and his parents don't do something to put a stop to it immediately, that's horrible.</p><p></p><p>The only other comment I would make is that some violence in media has no morality attached to it. IMO, this is dangerous for kids. In most cases, violence is either "good" (i.e. killing the bad guys) or "bad" (i.e. the obviously bad guys killing obviously good guys). Movies, books, video-games, etc. that portray violence without a clear moral context and explore "shades of grey" concerning the morality of violence can send mixed messages to kids and are probably too "adult" for them. For example, I would gladly sit down and watch <em>The Magnificent Seven</em> or <em>Silverado</em> with my niece and nephew (both movies with a clear moral context to their violence), but I wouldn't expose them to <em>The Unforgiven</em> or <em>High Plains Drifter</em> because (excellent actor and director though he is) Clint Eastwood likes to explore ambiguous morality in his "hero" characters and as a result, his movies are IMO too "adult" for children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 2081528, member: 20239"] I was 8 years old when I saw [i]Conan the Barbarian[/i] (at a drive-in theater no less :cool: ) and I thought it rocked on toast. The year before I saw [i]The Wizard of Oz[/i] on tv for the first time and had the worst nightmares of my life for a week. Kids get freaked out about strange things sometimes. As long as they have an involved and loving parent to help them through, those difficult times will be growing experiences that help them become good, well adjusted people. If a kid wants to pretend to slay imaginary monsters with a toy sword I think that's awesome. If the same kid starts hitting his friends with the sword and his parents don't do something to put a stop to it immediately, that's horrible. The only other comment I would make is that some violence in media has no morality attached to it. IMO, this is dangerous for kids. In most cases, violence is either "good" (i.e. killing the bad guys) or "bad" (i.e. the obviously bad guys killing obviously good guys). Movies, books, video-games, etc. that portray violence without a clear moral context and explore "shades of grey" concerning the morality of violence can send mixed messages to kids and are probably too "adult" for them. For example, I would gladly sit down and watch [i]The Magnificent Seven[/i] or [i]Silverado[/i] with my niece and nephew (both movies with a clear moral context to their violence), but I wouldn't expose them to [i]The Unforgiven[/i] or [i]High Plains Drifter[/i] because (excellent actor and director though he is) Clint Eastwood likes to explore ambiguous morality in his "hero" characters and as a result, his movies are IMO too "adult" for children. [/QUOTE]
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