Television’s time format makes violence the cheapest way to resolve conflict

Evidence

Time constraints are another factor that makes violence the preferred vehicle of conflict and its resolution. Violence is an easy way to initiate conflict, advance the plotline, and achieve a quick, decisive end to it. There is no time, say the broadcasters, for reflective thought. It only slows things down. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 945

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 945