Why does the media market violence to children?

Question

Many video games, movies, tv shows promote violence to children. I know that this is the way it is now but could anyone tell me why this started? Not looking for a clear cut answer just some thoughts.

Answer 1

They need a constant supply of homicidal maniacs that will be willing to kill for oil profits![in the name of Jesus]

Answer 2

I wish i knew that answer.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if it's intensional like a conspiracy, but I do think it has to do with how our culture and people these days are dulled by what they have seen on tv already. I mean, can you see a guy who's played a realistic war game going back to play a simple bugs bunny cartoonish game? It's possible, sure, but not likely. The reason is kind of like the story of Pandora's Box. Once we've been exposed to something at a certain degree, it's not easy to go back. Therefore, anything new almost certainly has to be the same or more intense than what we've been exposed to already.

Answer 4

I'm glad someone else sees this...

I would think mainly just so they can make a profit and make children "slaves" to this kind of thing.

Answer 5

Yes.  We've had a love affair with violent narrative since we began speaking through our myths, folktales, and legendary stories of violence and heroism told and retold around campfires and hearths. In the past children and youth had the wisdom and experience of the adults to mediate the moral dilemmas that violence presented.  Today the campfire is replaced by the computer or TV screen and the children and youth who watch the media are left alone by their busy or absent parents to work out the moral dilemmas by their inexperienced unwise selves.  Fed daily, children become inured to the violence.  The effects of the violence are fake and cartoonish and consequently these set up an unreal understanding of the gravity of what is shown.  

Why does the media market violence?  Because it sells; industrialists-business people aren't in business because they have a conscience and care about our morals or the condition of our society.  They care about the bottom line for their investors.

Answer 6

Because they are violent monkeys.

Answer 7

to make money