Po objavi posta Naši otroci kot bodoči morilci na daljavo? sem dobil nekaj mailov bodisi s pohvalami bodisi z linki na dodatne vire, ki jih nisem poznal. En tak zelo zanimiv vir je spletna stran Killology.com, kjer Dave Grossman, sicer ekspert za poučevanje ameriškega osebja širom sveta o “realnosti vojskovanja” in “pomenu ubijanja”, piše o tem, kako v sodobnih razmerah otroke dejansko efektivno pripravljamo na ubijanje. Z medijskimi vsebinami, ki so polne kriminalnih vsebin ter z igricami, ki temeljijo na “uničevanju”. Z obojim pripravimo otroke na to, da je nasilje “normalno stanje”, jim vsadimo “virus nasilja”, jih navadimo, da jim nasilje postane všeč, jih “vzgojimo”, da bodisi uprizorijo pokol v lokalni šoli, postanejo hladnokrvni vojščaki v lokalnih gangsterskih tolpah ali rekrutirani plačani morilci na daljavo. Grossman navaja številne metode “odvajanja od nasilništva” ter institucionalne načine, kako zavest in stopnjo nasilja zmanjšati z vzgojo, izobraževanjem, zakonodajo in nenazadnje z drugačnimi igricami za otroke.

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Conditioning Kids To Kill

Through violent programming on television and in movies, and through interactive point-and-shoot video games, the developed nations are indiscriminately introducing to their children the same weapons technology that major armies and law enforcement agencies around the world use to “turn off” the midbrain “safety catch” that Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall discovered in World War II.

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The observation that violence in the media is causing violence in our streets is nothing new. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, and their equivalents in many other nations have all made unequivocal statements about the link between media violence and violence in our society. The APA, in their 1992 report Big World, Small Screen, concluded that the “scientific debate is over.” And in 1993 the APA’s commission on violence and youth concluded that “there is absolutely no doubt that higher levels of viewing violence on television are correlated with increased acceptance of aggressive attitudes and increased aggressive behavior.” The evidence is, quite simply, overwhelming.

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Centerwall concludes that if television had never been introduced in the United States, then there would today be 10,000 fewer homicides each year in the United States, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults. Overall violent crime would be half what it is. He notes that the net effect of television has been to increase the aggressive predisposition of approximately 8% of the population, which is all that is required to double the murder rate.

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There are many psychological and sociological processes through which media violence turns into violent crime. From a developmental standpoint we know that around the age of 18 months a child is able to discern what is on television and movies, but the part of their mind that permits them to organize where information came from does not fully develop until they are between ages five and seven. Thus, when a young child sees someone shot, stabbed, beaten, degraded, abused, or murdered on the screen, for them it is as though it were actually happening. They are not capable of discerning the difference, and the effect is as though they were children of a war zone, seeing death and destruction all around them, and accepting violence as a way of life.

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Finally, from a behavioral perspective, the children of the industrialized world participate in countless repetitions of point-and-shoot video and arcade games that provide the motor skills necessary to turn killing into an automatic, reflexive, “kerplunk” response, but without the stimulus discriminators and the safeguard of discipline found in military and law enforcement conditioning.

Thus, from a psychological standpoint, the children of the industrialized world are being brutalized and traumatized at a young age, and then through violent video games (operant conditioning) and media violence (classical conditioning) they are learning to kill and learning to like it. The result of this interactive process is a worldwide virus of violence.

Vir: Conditioning Kids To Kill, Killology.com