Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 18, 2015
Transcript:
Calvin: "Graphic violence in the media" Calvin: "Does it glamorize violence? Sure. Does it desensitize us to violence? Of course. Does it help us tolerate violence? You bet. Does it stunt our empathy for our fellow beings? Heck yes" Calvin: "Does it CAUSE violence? ....Well, that's hard to prove." Calvin: "The trick is to ask the right question"
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
I remember when that was a hot button issue in the 80s and 90s.Defense attorneys were blaming violence on TV for turning their juvenile clients into murderers. I never felt the question was ever decisively answered.
alviebird over 9 years ago
Now it’s all about the violence in video games.
Major_JF over 9 years ago
Do violent games make people more violent?Or do violent people like to play violent games?
TheSkulker over 9 years ago
There are lots of ways of relieving tension, frustrations or anger – I did it in college with a piano – going from fist pounding to finger playing. Others pound tree stumps or physical exercise.
Unfortunately, not all methods of relief target inanimate objects.
phylum over 9 years ago
don’t let calvin watch the isis videos
phylum over 9 years ago
no snowman well be safe
The Life I Draw Upon over 9 years ago
Off subject, but I was just thinking about Calvin making snowmen/sculptures in snow buried Boston.
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
Cool Comic
thirdguy over 9 years ago
I wish I could get my TV to fly like that, Ok, maybe not.
jbmlaw01 over 9 years ago
Agree with Nab – but for the weekly Journal Editorial Report and an additional 5 minutes of Dennis Miller, I watch no television at all. Don’t need the drama in my life.
zellman over 9 years ago
They’ve done these tests. Violence doesn’t increase, but aggression does. Folks get more aggressive after interacting with violent media. But that doesn’t necessarily increase violent acts.
Vgrift85 over 9 years ago
@ leftwingpatriotShows how fast (not) our government works….a meeting for this and a meeting for that…a billion for this and a billion for that…However, I do not want to talk about government … That’s why I like to read C&H.
chizzel over 9 years ago
Somebody put polka-dots behind the chair
jrankin1959 over 9 years ago
It’s sure making the TV set act violently…
Dour Scotsman over 9 years ago
in an age where comic strips "cause " violence………..
Kaputnik over 9 years ago
Not the main point here, but I always liked Calvin’s jumping TV.
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
I like it love those comics
J Short over 9 years ago
Superbowl ad costs over $4 million for 30 seconds to influence your behavior. Watching violence for hours on end …
Droptma Styx over 9 years ago
Lots of violence on TV desensitizes us to violence … on TV. Ask any veteran if watching Looney Tunes desensitized him/her to warfare.
Aaron Saltzer over 9 years ago
Wow. Calvin should be a talk show host. Lol
Earle H Landry over 9 years ago
“Cause”? Since when does any psychological event “cause” another, like they were billiard balls bouncing around? Calvin has it right: influence. And it goes back to the Iliad. At least. And the counterintuitive fact is that there is much less violence now than before there was TV. We will have to wait for Psychology to develop a theory.
PoodleGroomer over 9 years ago
Name a non-comedy that doesn’t have gunfire as a regularly scripted theme.
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
I like it love those comics
Number Three over 9 years ago
That’s all there ever is on TV now. Violence, Crime, Reality TV.
YAWN!
xxx
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
Cool Comic
DutchUncle over 9 years ago
Alan Dean Foster, “Quozl”, a core theme that the aliens watch violent entertainment and play violent simulation games to DRAIN all of their violent impulses, to “get it out of the system” through non-real violence, precisely to PREVENT their tendency towards violence.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
“Sex on TV is not to be recommended… I keep falling off”.Yeah, and those dang kitchen tables just aren’t strong enough…: >)
Susie Derkins :D over 9 years ago
Violence is always right and always wrong.
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
another good one :)
vogonpoetry over 9 years ago
Why is the TV floating?
westny77 over 9 years ago
TV is loud if it is bouncing up in air
nikolatasche over 9 years ago
I like this one