Most video games have tons of violence, as do cartoons. Kids are surrounded by the stuff. Adults want more titillating versions - like live executions - because we've become deadened to violence by the time we reach adulthood.

Sad but true

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

I was gonna post a link to the news story here, but lost the link...in any case, it was a story about a boy (5 or 6 yr old) that hung himself, apparently trying to recreate the Saddam hanging...another victory for responsible journalism...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

osuche,

I suspect that you are correct.

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Eudaimonia