The World Would be a Much Better Place if TV Had Never Been Invented
In the modern world today, increasing numbers of people are being affected by television. The television has a place in almost any typical western family, and is destroying children’s minds. Infants are shown violence and learn profanities as young as the age of two. This cannot be allowed to continue if we strive for a crime free world.
The greatest enemy to the law is not the criminals themselves, but what shaped them, what drove them and what warped their mind at such a young age as to push them to extremities. According to Leonard Eron, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Michigan; “Television alone is responsible for 10% of youth violence.”
This is a most shocking fact to both younger and older generations as we witness what a new generation is growing up and learning about what is right. How can we keep our children safe if they think that violence is the way to solve problems?
However, the one of the facts that must be addressed is that television provides a global network; an alert can be broadcasted all over the world in a matter of seconds if the government require so. However, is this a price worth paying for our children’s minds? The American Psychiatric Association has stated that: “By age 18, a U.S. youth will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence.”
Each one of these 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence shape and mould our children’s minds. Each one of them teaches children that violence and death is acceptable and is a normal part of everyday life. If TV never existed, thousands of youths who are currently homeless and with criminal records may have grown up to be successful, helped with volunteer work in developing countries on a GAP year and so helped give other needy children a brighter future by building schools and homes. Have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. Gained a degree. Gone on to become successful businessmen, accountants or lawyers. Why do we continue to shape our children’s minds against what we want?
Moreover, another subject that we have not touched upon is that TV is making children obese. Today, one in four children is obese and the Health and Social Care Information Center survey of 2,000 children found: “From 1995 to 2004, obesity among boys aged 11-15 rose from 14% to 24% and girls from 15% to 26%. The rate rose slightly in the two to 10 age group.”
This outbreak of obesity is due to lack of exercise because that time is spent sitting inanimate, watching television or playing computer games. This outbreak falls almost entirely upon Television’s effect of drawing in young minds and holding them in its iron fist. There are very few transmissions that promote well being and exercising, and that one in five adverts are for food implies that television is the prime cause of nationwide child weight problems today.
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