riVeRraT writes:
There has been a steady increase in violence on TV over the last 36 years I have been watching it....
(I've been watching it at least 10 years longer than that.)
How do you measure violence? Is there an "increase" in the number of violent acts? Or in the severity of individual acts? Or in the amount of time devoted to depicting violence?
Do you factor the severity of individual acts into the "total amount" of violence? How many assaults equal one murder?
Is an act "more violent" if it happens in full view than if it happened off-screen? If a serial killer killed dozens before the show started, does that count?
Do accidental deaths count as violence? Does the news count as violence?
Until you have a rigorous methodology for measuring an "increase" in TV violence, you have no right to expect everybody to agree with you.
And what do you want to censor? Just decapitations or all murders? What about assaults? What about the news?
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