I was not age restricted growing up. I grew up watching Gatchaman cartoons for example, where people got killed, these were usually the bad guys. Then came shows such as Robotech and a thousand and one WW2 movies and Westerns where people usually got killed. That still did not desensitize me to death in shows where for example the character is a child or a young woman or a likeable nice guy character, these types of death always distressed me. As a kid I did not like that Roy Fokker and the kid in the Yearling anime died at some stage of these shows or the all female crew of the SDF-1 bridge in the last episode of the Macross Saga. So I can’t say I’m desensitized. I don’t like it when people die in shows, and of course I hate it when people die in real life, or suffer for that matter. I think good parenting is needed and wise-a$$ Criminologists who want to write up PhD fluff pieces should not interject too much in peoples’ families. Parents should have ultimate say about what their children can watch, and if they allow them to watch highly violent anime for example, it should be nobody’s business. It is however OK to provide information to parents but such should always be taken with a pinch of salt and professionals should always do their best to contextualize information and explain the statistics and the good and bad effects of qualitative research.
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I was not age restricted growing up. I grew up watching Gatchaman cartoons for example, where people got killed, these were usually the bad guys. Then came shows such as Robotech and a thousand and one WW2 movies and Westerns where people usually got killed. That still did not desensitize me to death in shows where for example the character is a child or a young woman or a likeable nice guy character, these types of death always distressed me. As a kid I did not like that Roy Fokker and the kid in the Yearling anime died at some stage of these shows or the all female crew of the SDF-1 bridge in the last episode of the Macross Saga. So I can’t say I’m desensitized. I don’t like it when people die in shows, and of course I hate it when people die in real life, or suffer for that matter. I think good parenting is needed and wise-a$$ Criminologists who want to write up PhD fluff pieces should not interject too much in peoples’ families. Parents should have ultimate say about what their children can watch, and if they allow them to watch highly violent anime for example, it should be nobody’s business. It is however OK to provide information to parents but such should always be taken with a pinch of salt and professionals should always do their best to contextualize information and explain the statistics and the good and bad effects of qualitative research.