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To: greenspirit who wrote (53186)	8/26/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

As I said, I would not mind raising the tone of television fare, but I am not sure how well that can be done. On the other hand, I do not think that it is just a question of portraying violence, since it is rarely graphic on television, and since it is often in a moral context, as on Homocide, where the whole point is that justice requires that someone speak for the dead...Certainly, some things that get by are appalling, though....

To: greenspirit who wrote (53186)	8/26/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Should be easy enough to do, but I think that the recent declines in violent crime cannot be explained by increasing rates of TV and computer game violence. Are you at all familiar with the terroristic Calvinism of 18th and 19th centuries in the US? The obsessive terror and sense of sin (Jonathan Edwards and the like) crippled many minds. In contrast, the great deists (Jefferson, Washington, Franklin) as nearly as we can tell totally lacked any sense of sin. I think it possible that the resurgence of fundamentalism and accompanying brain sickness might explain the post-WWII burst of terror. I think a study of the religious histories of mass murderers might be very interesting. That is one reason that I oppose capital punishment. I want killers to be studied to death by underpaid sociologists.