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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1795295" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>What about him running around pretending to be Luke with his hand cut off worried you? It seems like fairly normal behavor for a small child to imitate scenes from a favorite movie and that was quite possibly the most dramatic scene in the entire trilogy. So I can see how it would make a strong impression on him. Was he making a scene in a public place?</p><p></p><p>Boys have always been inclined to "play" violent scenes or actions. I'm not sure that's something to worry about unless it starts going beyond just playing. </p><p></p><p>For all the fuss made over here about violence in media, kids in japan watch far more violent material in anime than we would ever permit over here. Minor characters can be offed quite often and even major characters are killed off, sometimes quite violently. Manga can be as blood splattered as any Jason or Freddie movie. Yet Japan has some of the lowest rates of violent activity of any industrialized democracy. So I believe that it really has to do a lot more with how a kid is raised and his enviroment than it does the entertainment material they are exposed to.</p><p></p><p>One of the things I've always despised about the culture in the US is the tendency to have to bubble wrap everything that is presented to kids. Obviously they don't need to watch "Natural Born Killers" or "Backdoor Sluts 9", but it seems silly and a disservice to pretend that bad things don't happen to people or that nobody ever dies. It actually bothers me more that kids are shown that violence has no consequences. In the old GI Joe show for example you would have everyone blazing away with weapons, but nobody ever gets hurt or killed. Everyone always bails out before the plane, car, tank etc... is destroyed. I would much rather that they learn that pointing weapons at people has consequences and ones you can't undo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1795295, member: 149"] What about him running around pretending to be Luke with his hand cut off worried you? It seems like fairly normal behavor for a small child to imitate scenes from a favorite movie and that was quite possibly the most dramatic scene in the entire trilogy. So I can see how it would make a strong impression on him. Was he making a scene in a public place? Boys have always been inclined to "play" violent scenes or actions. I'm not sure that's something to worry about unless it starts going beyond just playing. For all the fuss made over here about violence in media, kids in japan watch far more violent material in anime than we would ever permit over here. Minor characters can be offed quite often and even major characters are killed off, sometimes quite violently. Manga can be as blood splattered as any Jason or Freddie movie. Yet Japan has some of the lowest rates of violent activity of any industrialized democracy. So I believe that it really has to do a lot more with how a kid is raised and his enviroment than it does the entertainment material they are exposed to. One of the things I've always despised about the culture in the US is the tendency to have to bubble wrap everything that is presented to kids. Obviously they don't need to watch "Natural Born Killers" or "Backdoor Sluts 9", but it seems silly and a disservice to pretend that bad things don't happen to people or that nobody ever dies. It actually bothers me more that kids are shown that violence has no consequences. In the old GI Joe show for example you would have everyone blazing away with weapons, but nobody ever gets hurt or killed. Everyone always bails out before the plane, car, tank etc... is destroyed. I would much rather that they learn that pointing weapons at people has consequences and ones you can't undo. [/QUOTE]
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