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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Explain why it's bad? Just saying so doesn't make it true. I watched plenty of horror movies and played violent video games. The important thing is that parents teach their kids to distinguish between reality and tv/video games.
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Watching violent acts will desensitize someone to violence.
Watching porn will desensitize someone to sexual acts.
Watching children's TV programming (or Fox News) will desensitize you to people acting like total idiots on TV.
That is pretty basic logic, and if you don't think so, I am sure a quick google search could show you many studies that could confirm the basic principles of desensitisation, and normalization of violent/sexual/etc acts.
If that is a bad thing or not, I don't really know, but it certainly isn't clear cut one way or another. For me, I don't feel like my kids need to be exposed to that right now, but they are 2 and 4, so not really in the violent video game age range. Although, my daughter loved "petting" sheep until they died in Minecraft, so maybe she is a serial killer in the making.
edit: and as much as I hate to agree with Option84, I can see how an episode of Walking Dead would scare the hell out of my 4 year old. I doubt they would enjoy someone's torso being ripped apart by a walker and devoured, so there isn't any point to them watching it (or being around when I watch it). Little kids shouldnt need to deal with that, they should be happy and just be kids.