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Originally Posted by El Rata
Please give me real life examples of negative effects that happen once you watch a murder video online.
It's a delicate subject to approach, because while a plethora of studies exist showing the effect of violent content on children, one also wants to stop short of endorsing whole-sale censorship or blanket policies to "protect" people from everything harmful. "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" is disgustingly abused to restrict a lot of liberties. All of us here are aware of that. I do still think the responsibility falls on the individual parent.
Also, based on what I've learned, there's a difference between effects on children under the ages of 10-12 and children who are into their teens/HS. I obviously don't adhere to the notion of 16YOS PLAYING VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES ALWAYS RESULTS IN VIOLENT PEOPLE, otherwise I and a lot of other people on 2+2 would be uber violent at this point!
Ex:
http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv.htm
Edit - I won't address your question re: the Daniel Pearl video, though, because I think it's just troll bait. We don't need studies to discuss why watching that might really screw with a 10yo's head. They struggle enough with being afraid of monsters in their closet as is.