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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9748001" data-attributes="member: 177">I don't know when Mr. King made those comments, but if it is recent, there's an interesting point here:  Mr. King just opened up the universe of his book The Stand to other writers in an anthology, The End of the World As We Know It.  Now, The Stand, and the anthology, are all about the impacts of death and destruction, as the world in it is decimated by a superflu.  So, I'll grant that King knows something about the topic.But, I think King is a little off the mark here, in two ways:1) Not everyone has to talk about his pet topic all the time.2) The MCU does address many of the consequences of violence... just not the consequences King would, nor in the way he would do so.Like, Tony Stark is a poster child for PTSD, and everything he builds is informed by it, as are his interactions with Peter Parker.  And major events in the MCU hinge on Stark's reaction to how his father died.  The recent season of Daredevil is largely about Matt Murdock's response to death.  And Peter Parker, as a character, is all about responsibility, including how to do, and not do, violence... And we could go on, if we really wanted to.This gets difficult to discuss, because none (?) of us are child development experts, and because we haven't really defined "children" in the context of this discussion.Teens and adults have rather more emotional and societal context and rational and emotional tools, than children do - showing kids the consequences of violence (or some other topics, like sex) without knowing the parents are engaged to help them work through those consequences is not likely to be useful to the child.</blockquote>

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