STOP supporting the bullshit violent culture!!! JUST STOP!!!

[Justin_Beach]

5. The entertainment industry gives people what they want to see ...

It's not just movies or video games. American culture glorifies violence. Look at the heroes of American History ... with few exceptions (JFK, MLK, some movie stars and musicians) they are criminals, or soldiers or both - Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, George Custer (who was a psychopath and an egomaniac), US culture celebrates the American Revolution, the Civil War, "cowboys and indians", WWI and WWII etc., Honoring those who have sacrificed in war is one thing, celebrating the actual combat is different (and something not many veterans are happy about.)

Then there is sports - WWF, Boxing, UFC, football (to an extent).

It's pervasive ... violence is how legends are made, how scores are settled, a route to fame, glory and wealth.

Turning off the fictional depictions of it is, in a way, just a way of hiding the reality.