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   9/08/08

   Sebastyne

   I don't think banning would do much good. People who are inclined that way will find a way to be brutal without inspiration. Like in the medieval times they opened up peoples stomach and wound the intestines around a stick until the person died, and that was done by the leaders. Fortunately humanity has grown to be horrified of cruelty, even on the silver screen.

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   9/08/08

   kdawg68

   Wolf Creek was based on a real criminal - so in that sense real life inspired film.
   
   No doubt there are folks who copy what they see on movies, but my hunch is they'd just copy what they read in books, saw in plays, played in video games, or in some cases what their dogs told them to do if they hadn't been aroused by film.

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   9/08/08

   thinkmaothink

   I'm sure we all think of things we shouldn't, e.g. killing people and fucking our mothers.
   But it's ok as long as we don't act it. (and it's the teeny % that actually acts it out)

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   1. 

      9/08/08

      acousticguitarist

      oh dear, it's those sort of movies, I had no idea and rarely would encounter those sort of things
      
      sick minds
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      9/08/08

      thinkmaothink

      I haven't watched Wolf Creek xD
      Just said "fucking our moms" coz Sigmund Froid said all guys imagines doing that atleast once in their life.
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   9/08/08

   acousticguitarist

   Yes very, if you drop one on your foot at the wrong angle they hurt like anything

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   9/08/08

   aningeniousname

   Horror movies are only dangerous if your a blonde girl with loose morals who likes to drive out to quite locations with bad boys and make out in cars.

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      9/08/08

      chrisso

      Do such people exist?
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   9/08/08

   jafabrit

   These types of movies/books/songs etc etc can only influence those who are inclined to want to do bad things in the first place. History is littered with killers and torturers who had no exposure to such films or literature.

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   9/08/08

   flamingpoodle

   "I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?" - Frank Zappa.
   
   People are individually responsible for their actions. Not guns, not the media, not your historical status, not your unacknowledged or your acknowledged privilege, not your gender, not your upbringing, not your religion, not your socio-economic circumstances or anything else is responsible for messed up people doing messed up things.

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   9/08/08

   ranist22

   I think drunken driving must have killed more people (directly) than horror movies.

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   9/08/08

   awordforthat

   I could watch movies all day about incest, murder, beastiality (oh, and I doooo,?)- and I'm confident enough in myself to know the movie wouldn't sway me to test the waters. I have to say though that anyone that does feel compelled to do these things after watching a flick were people that already had the propensity to do so.

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      9/08/08

      awordforthat

      I have to add that a horror movie CAN be dangerous if the DVD is broken into shards. VHS tapes have a little more weight to them - and film can be used for strangulation purposes, so I guess it really depends on what you're looking for.