Monday, May 15, 2017
Does music influence actions?
The columbine shooters played doom and listened to death metal. Is that an example of music influencing someone? Pretty much everyone listens to music, but does that mean we live our lives by what we listen to? I think it does, or at least we see the artists we listen to as role models. When I hear "Switch Lanes", I like to drive fast and zigzag through traffic by switching lanes. If music does in fact influence people's decisions, should music about topics like killing and hard drugs be illegal? Or is it something besides music that makes people do things. Do I drive fast because I naturally like to? Did the columbine shooters listen to heavy metal because it went along with a theme of killing that they already liked? What do you think?
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I think that music does not have the ability to influence someone to do something that they would not normally do. Music could only influence someone to be violent or aggressive if they naturally were that way due to upbringing, environment, or other factors. I think that music hypes people up, which is why people might do things like driving fast. But listening to a certain type of music does not mean that someone necessarily agrees with the messages in the song.
ReplyDeleteMusic doesn't affect your actions unless you give it that accreditation, just like books, newspapers, or other media. You read or listen to a publishing and make a decision for yourself to let the music take credit of your influence. Although language has well established out legitimacy within a legal framework, it is not the government's responsibility or their right to censor speech.
ReplyDeleteI think that music has the ability to affect feelings and emotions: softer music can relax us, whereas heavy metal may raise our heartbeats and get adrenaline going. So, I suppose it can influence actions, however, people do not listen to heavy metal when they are sad and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteI think music had no affect on the decisions of the shooters. The community was a picture perfect community that no one believed such a travesty would occur. I believe the community started blaming various things such as music the kids used to listen to. Instead of finally accepting what happened and what really caused it they started pushing the blame on others. This also included first person shooter video games that were accused of influencing the kids.
ReplyDeleteI think music has no affect on someones decisions or actions, but I do think it can affect emotions. Loud rap music or rock music might make me feel more energetic while slower songs may make me feel relaxed or tired. Personally I think that those in the community wanted to blame something other than the kids being bad for the reason behind their crime.
ReplyDeleteI don't think music made them do it. I think music can sway your mood, but not convince you to shoot up a school.
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