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That music and other things like it play a major role in how people behave in society doesn't absolve any individual of their part, either. But people need to quit pretending as if these things which people take in every single day have no role at all toward influencing children and adults, alike.
Why just stop at music? These arbitrary categorizations are just a repeat of the same patterns. Next, it'll be video games again. In a few years, it'll be because kids have multiple digital devices on their person at all times. Been there, saved a polaroid. America has gone through a wonderful cycle of blaming articles of culture as major factors or causes of violence. How many of these ideas like the temperance movement or crack down on jazz houses did more good than harm for a society?
The only thing we're pretending to do as a society is ignore that mountain of established and solid evidence that if we wanted fewer social ills we need to battle the root cause of social problems. Americans aren't the only people flocking and consuming rap music in droves in the developed world. How come we're the ones with the more violent society?
It just seems because some don't act on these influences, they'd like to say all can handle them the same way, thus placing any blame on those which promote it must simply be a "scapegoat" tactic. Please.
No, it's suggesting that if the stimuli alone isn't reliably making it happen then maybe there are other factors.