Differentiate the violence watched by adults to the violence watched by children

Cartoons are not really deemed violent, because they have got sweet and cute characters.. PLus, there will always be good and bad guys in the world, and so, with everything the good is doing, it's not considered violent.. haha =D JUst like any war movies, we do see explosion, broken limbs etc, and those bombings are caused by bad guys, thus it's being emphasised on for visual effects.. BUt when the good guys did the same things, it's often ignored, as most of us will think it's the right thing to do, and thus it's not violent.. lol =D

That's it actually. Adult violence has more detail. The more close up it is, the more blood and gore, the more seeming pain, the better. It is a bit sick and twisted in a way. Adult violence has the intention of hurting other people or other life forms. These people enjoy watching others go through physical pain to the point of cruelty. Prolonging the agony of such life forms illicit the greatest of pleasures in these much perverted individuals. But the mainstream adult violence, just depicts those kinds of intentions by showing people killing each other in some form or other. Like how the SAW movies present its violence. What I like about the SAW movies is that they seem to try to justify the actions of the people in certain situations. There is a point of message conveyed to the audience so its not just all blood, gore and killing just for the sake of fun. In children's point of view, you have cited a good example. Tom and Jerry doesnt seem to do anything but hurt each other. The Looney Tunes characters are only after one another. Elmer the Hunter goes after Bugs Bunny all the time, that he hurts himself in the process, then here comes Daffy Duck who just adds in to all the confusion and mayhem. Wile E. Coyote runs after RoadRunner but RoadRunner outsmarts him that Coyote's traps always fall on him and not on Road Runner. Actually, I think that children's cartoons are the most violent of shows, if you really think about it. For the reason and examples cited above. These characters just dont seem to do anything else most of the time. But good thing that the audience are too young to see the implications. However, there are implications that the children act out what they see Jerry did to Tom, on other people, then they laugh at the person after doing it because to them its kinda like the cartoon. They dont realize that they're already hurting other people in such acts. "Violence" in children's shows is just a depiction of a form of slapstick comedy that Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges are best known for. It just comes down to entertainment anyway.

ya gave my example my grand daughter loved Tom and Jerry and laughs alot at them. I always like the roadrunner and the coyote

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hmm.. i dont think there is huge difference after all it is still violence. however you have a point that violence being shown to children are sometimes in forms of humor and action cartoons. so they cant really tell if it is violent or humorous. but then its still violence and i think cartoons who offer humor and violence should not be shown to children who still have yet to know about the world. good day :D

In personal view,I don't like watching the violent films or scenes as an adult.I always have the ides that no matter for adults or children, if they are longly affected by the violent and blooding scenes, they will take those violences granted, bloody gradually ok, violence not such unacceptable, that's why violent crimes are in a increasing trend.While to the adults , they are less afftected than children for they, to some extent, have reasonable judgement for rights and wrongs, children on the other hand have no mature judgements for the doings, what they know is just imitating what the scenes show. As a result, children become the victims of the violent films.

I hate watching violence myself. I do not see it as being a good thing for aduts especially if they do not have a stable life. It is not good for our children to see either because alot of them think it is okay if it is done in a movie.

Violence seems to be a way of life anymore. U see everything on tv that is violent not just the shows that are on but just look at the violence on the news everyday. As for cartoons i think there is alot of violence in them but as u say the kids think it is funny.

Hey neelian! I feel very strongly about this subject! I think that children are exposed to way too much violence, especially the graphic kind that you have described! And it is all over the tv so it is really hard to monitor what a child is seeing! Some of these scenes, like in the CSI and other murder investigation shows are way too graphic for some adults to deal with, let alone children! Things are not like they were years ago when my parents were able to monitor what me and my brother watched, that's for sure! There definitely is too much graphic violence on tv that children are being exposed to and I wish that there were more that could be done to stop this! That is why the crimes of minors have been on the rise~they see it, they try it! Something needs to be done about this, but sadly I don't know the answer!

I think most children movies are rated as General viewing when in fact there are some violence scenes, but like you mentioned they are not expressed openly especially in cartoons or graphics form. However, in movies for instance, fantasies such as Harry Porter and Narnia, normally the leading actress and actors were kids, but they have violence scenes as well. I think because of the characters are portray in some form of magical creatures that distinguish them from the gory scenes from the adults' violence scenes.

You are so right. Today,violent movies will show the state of art of severed limbs, impaled victims and what not. Just watch 300, Braveheart and Gladiator and you know what I mean. The Tom and Jerry-Popeye violence is tongue in cheek but children grew out of them fast and migrate quickly to online computer games which are equally graphic in showing violence. You can't win them all!