In Evanescense's Tourniquet someone screams in the middle "I want to die!" If I was a parent I wouldn't want my kid to listen to that. It might encourage them to think about it, like, wow being suicidal is cool, espceically if they didn't know any better.
Suicide is a fine example on how the egg comes before the chicken, and not the way around. I highly doubt that a perfectly happy, normal, and balanced child that listened to a song promoting suicide would just decide to end their life. I would, instead, expect that if any child or teenager "got" ideas of suicide from a song, it was because they were severely depressed in the first place. It is important to distinguish problem issues from their coinciding factors to see what's wrong at the root. Let the parents consider that underlying factors completely separate from the media may be the cause, instead of just blaming it on the songs the kid listened to or the shows they watched.
An interesting point: Two of the groups I really like are KMFDM and Rammstein. Those are exactly the two groups that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (who did the Columbine shootings) adored. Yet I have not once considered shooting up my school or doing something ridiculous like that. In fact, I'm a fairly nonviolent person.
Maybe I was never a psychopath in the first place.
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Date: 2006-02-26 12:16 am (UTC)Suicide is a fine example on how the egg comes before the chicken, and not the way around. I highly doubt that a perfectly happy, normal, and balanced child that listened to a song promoting suicide would just decide to end their life. I would, instead, expect that if any child or teenager "got" ideas of suicide from a song, it was because they were severely depressed in the first place. It is important to distinguish problem issues from their coinciding factors to see what's wrong at the root. Let the parents consider that underlying factors completely separate from the media may be the cause, instead of just blaming it on the songs the kid listened to or the shows they watched.
An interesting point: Two of the groups I really like are KMFDM and Rammstein. Those are exactly the two groups that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (who did the Columbine shootings) adored. Yet I have not once considered shooting up my school or doing something ridiculous like that.
In fact, I'm a fairly nonviolent person.
Maybe I was never a psychopath in the first place.
Lisa//Slytherin