{"id":2277,"date":"2004-02-26T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T10:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/27\/violence-is-bad-good\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:34:11","slug":"violence-is-bad-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/26\/violence-is-bad-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence is ( bad | good ) !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11652,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/arcterex.net\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/26\\\/the_agony_and_the_irony.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081121225034\\\/http:\\\/\\\/arcterex.net\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/02\\\/26\\\/the_agony_and_the_irony.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:16:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 05:47:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 03:48:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 03:48:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/arcterex.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/26\/the_agony_and_the_irony.html\" title=\"The Agony and the Irony\">ruminations from Alan<\/a> today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Group One blames violence in video games and movies for the behavior of today&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p>Group Two buys out entire theaters for church groups, youth groups and families to see Mel Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;The Passion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Any bets on just how separate those two groups really are?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that while there are definitely people solidly in one camp or another, there are probably quite a few people in both groups (and I&#8217;ll be damned if I can remember the name of that kind of diagram &#8212; you know, the two overlapping circles&#8230;) that see absolutely no conflict between the two positions. How they would manage that, I&#8217;m not sure, but I wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; by DJ W\u00fcdi from the album <em>Difficult Listening Hour<\/em> (2001, 27:41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group One blames violence in video games and movies for the behavior of today&#8217;s youth. Group Two buys out entire theaters for church groups, youth groups and families to see Mel Gibson&#8217;s &#8216;The Passion&#8217;. Any bets on just how separate those two groups really are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[23,103],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-film","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}