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22. What If TV Isn't Bad for Us?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Movie Violence

Violent movies reduce violence because people who might be violent are simply busy doing something else. If you show people at risk for committing violent crimes a movie that they like, but that isn't violent, the crime rates drop even more. Watching a violent movie is a safer place for a violent person to be than in a bar. But an even safer place would be to have them watching a movie that doesn't have any aggression or violence in it. And then you'll get the biggest bang for your buck. It's not movies per se, it's about time use. What you could just do midnight basket ball? Does it make us desensitized over time? I've never great papers

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