In my opinion, there is an extreme amount of violence portrayed in cartoons. As a result, cartoons have been transformed into a fast expanding epidemic that is damaging to the audience of cartoon viewers throughout the country, and possibly around the world. Not only are cartoons physically violent, they are emotionally, mentally, socially, legally, and culturally attacking at human society of the past, present and future. During my extensive research, things that were observed were almost all types of cartoons I have ever come across, as well as experts ideas, parents intuition and how children react. Modern research and statistics done on the subject could reinforce most of their information. Among the cartoons observed were cartoons based in the past, present and future while also including cartoons from different countries. The reasoning behind this was that cartoons play a part in all childrens lived around the world wherever they watch them. The most important and potentially the most dangerous influence that cartoons have on children is that fact that cartoons fail to instruct and teach viewers which are children, the lessons of respect and morals while the children are still at a young age. (Hardesty a4) Unfortunately, the lessons that cartoons do teach children are socially unacceptable, extremely dangerous, and in some cases can be fatal. A good part of the cartoons viewed during research had several examples of situations that were very verbally humiliating or abusive. At the same time, these same cartoons were mentally and physically abusive as well. Mostly all of the negative actions performed within these programs were performed without any real consequences. Experts agree that it is crucially important to drill morals and the potential consequences of everyday situations to children while they are still young. At such a young age, children are susceptible and vulnerable human beings. Haplessly, cartoons count...
