Cartoon Violence

[fudashi]

I don't think that cartoons make anyone violent unless they have a propensity to violence in the first case.??Cartoons, videogames, rock music, anything can be scapegoated, especially where violent crime has taken place.

Desensitizing???Possibly.?With cartoons, Road Runner for example, Wile E. Coyote gets run over by lorries, blown up, falls of cliffs - but is invariably back to try again, and again. Once you're old enough to understand that it's a cartoon and not real, I don't see a problem.??I hear that some of the classics have been "Politically Corrected", which makes me sad.??If you want to stop kids watching them, why not stick a PG-13 rating on them???As Sek said:

I say in cartoons anything goes as long as they have the correct rating

But that's the problem - people generally pay little attention to the rating on music, movies, games, and then there's an outcry when some n-year old (pick an age ) goes on a killing spree because "they were playing GTA" or whatever - why is someone of that age playing a game rated 18, or Mature, or whatever the rating system is in your particular country?

I've got Bioshock here on my laptop, and it's a great game - but I wouldn't let my kids play on it.??Mind you, they're both under 3.??But even so, I'm careful not to play it when the kids are around, the language and violence are not appropriate, and won't be for some years to come.

I'll shut up now.