We'd all love to say we're immune to "monkey say, monkey do," but none of us are - and that is why it matters if we are watching media that promotes violence or peaceful intelligent social negotiations with nuanced thought patterns.
In a role modelling mammal that is built to learn through layers of neurone accumulation, excessive regular viewings of violent media can act as a catalyst to social violence.
An enzyme does not cause a reaction to occur, it simply lowers the activation energy required for the reaction to happen - perhaps our violent media is the same for real world violence.
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