Violent Video Games

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written violence isn't as intricate as visual violence. It just can't be. There's a pace to maintain, and parsing long descriptions slows that pace to a crawl.

I think its much more intracate, and if anything the need to keep the pace up is greater in visual violence. An author can write a book thats 100 pages or 1000. TV and movies dont have that kind of flexibility, they have some, but not that much. Authors go on tangents all the time in their books because they have the time to. Therefore its pretty reasonable to assume that they will and do, spend much more time setting the mood. Lets assume that your right and they do need to keep the pace up. My point still remains that even a half decent description of what is happening will take longer then a flash of it, therefore violent imagery will still be in your head longer, then it will from a movie.

You are right that it is user deffined, but the whole media causing violence is obviously dependant on the persons mind, otherwise each one of us would killers.

My whole book point was that these people are targeting TV, movies and video games, while books could easily be targeted, but they're not because of the litteracy benefit.

The idea of TV, movies and video games is a very recent one, yet the idea of killing someone isnt. I think that along makes them very segregated.