Monday, November 05, 2007
Nurture vs Nature
I was reading this article about how kids who watched violence on TV were more likely to be aggressive. It talks about how cartoons makes violence funny. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry, Wile E Coyote, Bug Bunny, etc. I'm not a violent and aggressive person. This is where the nurture part comes in. Are these kids that they are saying are affected by the cartoon violence coming from dysfunctional or broken homes? No mention of the nurture aspect in this article.
Any kid who plays with other kids finds out pretty quickly that if you hurt someone, they're going to punch you in the face and that hurts so they shouldn't hurt anyone again. Like puppies (yes, I again am likening little children to animals), puppies try to bite each other, but when one bites too hard, the other yelps, then they know that's a boundary they shouldn't cross anymore.
When I was little I watched those cartoons, movies like Star Wars and Conan Barbarian, tv shows like the Dukes of Hazzard, etc. All had some sort of violence in them. I have it written down in one of my "What do I want to be when I grow up" books that I wanted to be a warrior when I grew up. But I'm not.
And on that note, here's another clip from The Warriors:
Any kid who plays with other kids finds out pretty quickly that if you hurt someone, they're going to punch you in the face and that hurts so they shouldn't hurt anyone again. Like puppies (yes, I again am likening little children to animals), puppies try to bite each other, but when one bites too hard, the other yelps, then they know that's a boundary they shouldn't cross anymore.
When I was little I watched those cartoons, movies like Star Wars and Conan Barbarian, tv shows like the Dukes of Hazzard, etc. All had some sort of violence in them. I have it written down in one of my "What do I want to be when I grow up" books that I wanted to be a warrior when I grew up. But I'm not.
And on that note, here's another clip from The Warriors:
