There may have a lot of social reasons to create "teenagers", but not with out a price.

What do you get when you have a fully functional human being with out responsibilities and dreams but a mass consumer culture?

Add to this the support to violent contents, questionable idols, drugs promotion and poor development in fine arts and sports.

Governments prefer stupid happy slappers and *distracted*, *entertained* people than healthy smart ones.

Roberto, Mexico, Mexico

Most people sweep the problem under anything that has a form of violence in it, suggested it should all be banned/removed/replaced. That effectively eliminates books, radios, TVs, movies, computer games, playground games (fighting with sticks, rulers, etc), historical books on war/dictatorship etc, schools, homes, police stations, jails... The list goes on and on.

Stop blaming technology for a problem that has been around for years! They would punch someone's head in whether they had a HD-TV to watch it on or not!

Technology keeps people *distracted*, *entertained*, that means they aren't running around causing choas! Would you trust your teenage son/daughter on a computer game that involves killing, or prefer them to have a night out on the tiles, get drunk and actually kill/get killed?

P.S. Olden Days had plenty of wars thank you very much.

Joshua, Danbury, UK

I think we should blame all the evils in the world on animated and simulated violence (ie. from television and computer games).

Clearly, barbaric things like public executions and the gladiatorial arenas of Rome (which civilisations all over the World have carried out at some point) were inspired by citizens playing too many videogames and watching violent movies.

I bet Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin all played violent videogames during their childhood as well.

Hopefully you will have noted the sarcasm in my comments by now.

Robin, London, UK