We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.