Fictional aggression weakens adult restraints as effectively as real violence

Evidence

This film is energetic, visually brilliant and very funny, with a sharp script that is never allowed to hold up the carnage. Its violence is spectacular, totally unrealistic and—who knows?—perhaps quite therapeutic. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 339 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Justified fictional violence weakens restraints as effectively as real justified violence — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 888; Fictional violence affects adult aggression as much as real-life violence does.; Adults are not immune to modeling behavior from fictional aggressors — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 887 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Fictional violence affects adult aggression as much as real-life violence does. #corroborates (0.95)
• Unrealistic cartoonish violence may prove cathartic rather than harmful #complicates (0.80) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 339