Television and violence

Television has changed the humanity greatly. All the possibilities that we've got with television are amazing, we are now able to learn, to educate ourselves, to teach our children, and simply to entertain ourselves without leaving our homes. The time we spend in front of the TV screen is getting greater with every year as new channels with new high-quality educational and entertaining content are appearing. Some of us have forgotten when they bought daily newspapers last time just to read the news. To know what's happening in the world we just turn on the TV and watch some news channel.

But television is also getting more and more dangerous. It's a well known psychological fact that people like watching spectacular things. And in the pursuit for spectacular things TV makers just tend to show what people want to see, however brutish such desire can be. Despite the various laws and instructions by state authorities designed to reduce the amount of violent films and programs, more and more low-quality production is shown on our screens. This was especially notable in the 1990's when a huge amount of Hollywood action, horror, and even entertainment movies was made. And today if we want to see violence we don't even have to bother much as every day we can see documentaries about killers, maniacs, gangsters and so on. Documentaries are not against the law, so we are destined to see even more of it in the future.

The worst thing is that violence on TV is being absorbed by children's immature minds and are then transformed into their negligent acts.