From Shakespeare to today's entertainment, shows of all sorts have been based on demand from the audience. Violence is a major demand; people want to see blood and gore, so it is supplied. Authors use what effects they can to please their audience, and by doing so, generations have grown accustom to seeing such violence. No, violence on TV does not have the ability to "ruin" society, because our nation and many others, were already …
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…in some form or another; none were because of a movie, book, or play. It would be unjust, to say those people died because entertainment drove their killers. Teens have said that September 11 did not seem to hit them the way they felt it should have, because they were used to seeing more graphic things on television. Entertainment dulls the shock of violence. Entertainment violence is not what "ruins" society, what "ruins" society is human.