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21. 

    Krauser
    

    Sukunai said:
    Too much time studying and learning has also been know to cause social damage to people as well. Ever notice how the truly smart are often loners and have few friends?

    I sure as hell know. I have first hand knowledge.

    Being stupid is repairable, being smart is permanent.

    You'll have more friends and fit in more if you're no different than the rest.

    Please fix my friends!! one thinks aspirin comes from an aspirin plant (his idiot girlfriend agrees) and another thinks you can get meth mouth from simply snorting cocaine.

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22. 

    TheGreekDollmaker
    

    Penance said:

    Please fix my friends!! one thinks aspirin comes from an aspirin plant (his idiot girlfriend agrees) and another thinks you can get meth mouth from simply snorting cocaine.

    Being stupid and being uneducated are 2 different things.

    Yours friends are propably uneducated.

    Being Stupid Implies that their phychological abilities are slower or that they reach conclusions or think in a tottally irrational way.

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23. 

    Envoy Loves You
    

    motaku96 said:
    I was approached by my school newspaper about a study on how TV can hurt children. The study is based on this. Questions I was asked.

    1. Did you grow up watching, following animation?
    2. What is your reaction to this study? Do you think there's truth in the study? Is it definitive?
    3. Do you think in any way watching animation has benefited your personal development? or does it in any way do harm?

    Well I think you know how I'm gonna reply. Any thoughts you wanna share?

    Hmm, it doesn't state what type of psychological damage is inflicted but here goes my thoughties:

    1. Did you grow up watching, following animation?
    Yes.

    2. What is your reaction to this study? Do you think there's truth in the study? Is it definitive?
    Not enough details has been offered

    3. Do you think in any way watching animation has benefited your personal development? or does it in any way do harm?
    It helped my imagination grow. Nope, no harm has been done except if you count taking away boredom harmful.

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24. 

    Mistress Antika
    

    1. Did you grow up watching, following animation?

    
    I grew up playing Mario Bros on PC and playing outside, I wasn't interested in the TV.

    2. What is your reaction to this study? Do you think there's truth in the study? Is it definitive?

    
    I think that in this case, it depends very much on the individual.

    3. Do you think in any way watching animation has benefited your personal development? or does it in any way do harm?

    
    Harms: Got glasses after 4 years of sitting in front of the computer. My butt hurts after a night playing games.

    Benefits: I learn English 'cuz most of the stuff I watch are in English or translated to English. I learn not do the stupid things they may do in the program. (Heelloo, ever seen jackass???]

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25. 

    EagleEye
    

    1. yeah

    2. I'm not judging a scientific article without seeing the actual thing, news don't know how to read scientific litterature properly and they never report the limitations of the research that you can find at the end of every article.

    3. Harms: none
    Benifits: my dad would wake me up to watch the saturday morning cartoons with him so that I could learn English faster, so animation gave me a second language before school did and also gave me quality time with my father.

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26. 

    Sukunai
    

    I grew up with lead paint, toys that were made of metal and had sharp edges, and we climbed trees.

    In our teens, we liked to fuck without protection. But that was just that babies weren't seen as a threat I guess. It wasn't about paranoid STD fears as much as today (not that the world was cleaner though).

    Porn was damn near invisible, heck married people on TV slept in separate beds on the show. Swearing WOULD get your mouth full of soap, your teachers WOULD use physical punishment and violence in video had no gore.

    But I also had to read a book instead of play something on a machine.
    Playing was done outside and involved bikes and sports gear.
    TV was useful maybe on the weekend, but kids really had little interest in TV when I was young.

    I think modern tech in entertainment effects a lot of people, not just kids.
    Fat kids were a lot more rare when I was one. Not easy to get fat if you were outside playing most of the time.

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27. 

    Krauser
    

    Sukunai said:
    Not easy to get fat if you were outside playing most of the time.

    unless you come from bad genetics. like you i was outside all the time. i would watch some cartoons on saturday morning but after that no one would hear from me till dinner time. biking, fishing, swimming, trampolines, football, basketball, baseball, soccer, all day everyday , one side of town to the other.....and i was still fat, what a rip off.

    and what the fuck happened to "Tonka tough" actually meaning something?
    you could use those dump trucks as roller skates or an impromptu weapon. now they're small and plastic and safe. bleh.

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote
28. 

    Kudilicious
    

    Tell them about your sexual orientation and fetishes and imply that TV is responsible for them.

    Assuming that all of your experiences until now are what have made you who you are, you won't be lying.

    Anyway:

    1. Yes

    2. I only bothered reading the article you linked to and skimmed the yahoo article that it links to, but I'm getting the impression that it's bullshit. The conclusion is based on the idea that correlation implies causation.

    How do we know that watching lots of TV and playing games causes mental heath problems? Maybe children who already have mental health problems will be drawn to the virtual world because there's nothing for them in the real one.

    Or maybe they have a common cause: maybe children spend all day in front of the screen and have mental health problems because they are bullied? Or maybe they have bad parents who let them do whatever they want but also badly affect their mental health?

    Of course, they study may have taken these things into account. Maybe the news articles were being sensationalistic and misrepresenting what the academics said.

    3. It's impossible to tell. If it has had any affect on me, it's way down on the list of influences.

    Also, why was there a girl cosplaying (quite well) as Hatsune Miku in that page you linked to?

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote
29. 

    一匹狼
    

    How long has this argument been going on anyway...?
    I'm only slightly interested in the unrelated picture at the bottom.

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote
30. 

    Kudilicious
    

    Ippikiookami said:
    How long has this argument been going on anyway...?

    Which? The "does TV make children evil" argument?

    Since TV was invented, I think. Or since kids started watching it.

    Whenever a new media is created, the reactionary members of the old generation will think that's it's bound to cause the downfall of society, and selection bias will "prove" them right. TV makes children evil. Children will copy the violence they see on TV. Rock music will turn them into Satanists. Children will copy the violence they see on VHS cassettes of Hollywood films. Children will copy the violence they see in video games. The internet and social networking will turn them into prey for paedophiles and encourage them to break Cho's high score.

    These moral panics have been going on for decades. They're wrong each time, but each time the people behind them are convinced that the new thing is special and that this really will be the downfall of society. It's like people who believe every rumour about a FF7 remake even when they've been proven wrong 9001 times. They always believe the latest rumour is special: this time it's true. Of course they get proven wrong again, but that doesn't stop them believing the next one.

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote
31. 

    TyChan (Is a Girl)
    

    Parents are using tv, games media in general as a scapegoat for bad parenting.

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32. 

    一匹狼
    

    kudichan said:
    Which? The "does TV make children evil" argument?

    Since TV was invented, I think. Or since kids started watching it.

    Whenever a new media is created, the reactionary members of the old generation will think that's it's bound to cause the downfall of society, and selection bias will "prove" them right. TV makes children evil. Children will copy the violence they see on TV. Rock music will turn them into Satanists. Children will copy the violence they see on VHS cassettes of Hollywood films. Children will copy the violence they see in video games. The internet and social networking will turn them into prey for paedophiles and encourage them to break Cho's high score.

    These moral panics have been going on for decades. They're wrong each time, but each time the people behind them are convinced that the new thing is special and that this really will be the downfall of society. It's like people who believe every rumour about a FF7 remake even when they've been proven wrong 9001 times. They always believe the latest rumour is special: this time it's true. Of course they get proven wrong again, but that doesn't stop them believing the next one.

    I see a lot of truth in that this cycle of shunning things people don't care to understand is continuing to be voiced throughout the generations. On a whole, it makes no sense why this continues to happen with whatever new fad is deemed evil because all the little parts of their argument had little grounding to start with. Moreover, each time it seems that the big picture is shrugged off because the problem is too difficult to deal with on a macro scale anyway. I think most people agree on this one the problem is negligence on the parents' part.

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote
33. 

    Ballatician
    

    simple solution: get really blazed and watch seinfeld.

    Posted 5 years ago # Quote

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