Torrents of light flood on to the television screen depicting an arena full of half crazed fans cheering on the two figures in the ring. The two men use the most underhanded tactics to beat the other into a pile of meat on the canvas as the crowd goes insane over the mayhem. Children crowd around the glowing receiver and squeal with joy as their favorite wrestler performs an action, which would normally cleave a man's skull. Violence is being taught to children at a very young age now, which can stimulate a string of negative events and severe emotional reactions. Though it is a reoccurring theme in movies and television shows, it is also becoming more publicized in current events. CNN is now going into wars and placing its audience in the frontlines with lead flying through the air and whizzing past the camera's lens. Violence is becoming overly accepted in today's society, and has very real effects on today's youth. .
To children, television equals reality. Watching Stone Cold smash a guy's head into the turnbuckle teaches children that this sort of violence is acceptable, and has no consequences. Instead children are shown that these actions warrant applause, not a prison sentence. Of course the youth will try their newfound entertainment on their friends or siblings. Children have and always will find new and seemingly impossible ways to hurt themselves no matter what the circumstances, but handing them an instruction tape with new and exciting ways to hurt their friends is certainly unwise. When a child does experiment with this new game they will find that .
their victim of the "pile driver" will not so easily shake off the abuse. Learning violence from the media will only result in one thing: performing violence in real life.
Some may argue that simulated violence in a child's life can prepare him or her for the true terrors in the real world, and numb them to the emotion of fear and violence by showing it to them throughout their entire life.
