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The Military-Nintendo Complex presents readers with the opinion that media; especially electronic games and television are detrimental to our youth. I agree whole-heartedly with this idea and I personally feel that violence in the media is having a very negative effect on the youth of our nation. The result of a lack of parental supervision and the psuedo-military conditioning children receive through playing violent video games such as DOOM is an unhealthy addiction to fantasy (…

…effect of violence on television appears to be very subtle it can have a lasting outcome on those children who are very young. Children younger than age 10 have a very tough time distinguishing between reality and fantasy. They take images that they passively see on television and convey them into the real world. After constant conditioning of brutal images of violence and direct interaction with violent gaming I think that society is asking for it.