The
government should control the amount of violence in films and on television in
order to decrease the rate of violent crime in society. Do you agree or
disagree?
With the
development of society, communities have faced increased the rate of violent crime
and some people believe that the violent contents in a movie or TV shows definitely
are affecting on the motivation of the crime. Therefore, they insist that the
government should intervene on directing movies or shows to cut down of violent
stories in it. However, I personally believe that this is not effective way of
reducing the crime rate since there are other reasons and causes to increase the
crime rate.
To begin
with, it is true that people can come across ruthless and cruel scenes through
movies and TV media easily and some criminals try to imitate the style or
pattern from what they have watched. However, there is no clear evidence
that those programs stimulated their motivation or will to take wrong actions.
Moreover, if the governments interrupt the process of making films and shows,
the film makers certainly cannot express the artistic inspiration well on their artwork
because they might feel walk on eggshells when this whole controlling or
intervening happen. For example, there was a massive public disapproval in
South Korea about this issue few years ago and the reason why people in Korea
were against this was not only many artists did not feel comfortable with
oppressing the right of creation but also this could lead other aspects in a political
way by accepting the power or capital from the society to the stories.
Moreover, even if the governments are able to decrease the violent contents from TV, criminals could find other ways of crime methods in different ways such as communicating other criminals or co-operating with other group of people. For example, one recent research conducted by Korean government that interviewed a substantial number of offenders in jail shows that interestingly their most motivation of crime was related to their family issues. They could not control their range towards people just not because they have exposed to too many cruel movies but they have felt not loved and cared from their family or have gotten physical and mental abuse. Therefore, this shows that there are more reasons to be occurred and increased crimes aside from the violent contents.
In conclusion, although controlling violent movies
and tv shows can bring immediate results for short-term, this cannot be
long-term solution and it can lead more side effects on society.