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Re: Children and Violence
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Date: 
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:33:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John J. Ladasky, Jr. writes:

Why we still haven't obtained a definite answer to this question, with the
benefit of a century of reasonably scentific psychology, is a mystery to me.

Nothing (short of raising a number of kids in Skinner boxes) can
*experimentally* answer this, would be my suspicion. Otherwise too many
factors muddy whether it's a cause or not...



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(...) If there is a causal relationship that is strong enough to be worried about, then surely it is something that an attempt at correlation would find. Since such correlation hasn't been shown, I think that we can temporarily behave like there is (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) [...] (...) All I can say, Richard, is don't count on answering this question easily. The debate is over 2,000 years old. In Plato's _Republic_, it is stated that only "wholesome" entertainment should be permitted in the ideal society. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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