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We did have Topic #1 a few weeks back. This time, I have chanced upon a related topic.

Teens becoming violent, Virginia Tech Massacre, teens running rampant in schools, domestic violence, enraged kids kill own parents...

...some of the burning issues today. We all know kids are easily influential, by their company and what they see or try to emulate.

Do the recent movies (getting more violent and bloody) and the role-playing / first person shooter videogames have a part in this? I chanced upon an article in a recent mag in which psychoanalysts defined "internet and computer addiction" in which they argued that violent role-play games DO tend to influence teens to a fair bit. They either become short-tempered, violent, easily annoyed, nervous when not playing etc. OR they become suicidal insomniacs.

Do movies and videogames influence kids to that extent? Granted, violence in games and movies has considerably increased over the years...but the uber-bloody violent action movies of the 80s didn't have THAT kind of influence on us who grew through those years.

So...

What's your take on this?