Media Violence and Freedom of Speech: How to Use Empirical Data |
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Authors: | Boudewijn de Bruin |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Susan Hurley has argued against a well known argument for freedom of speech, the argument from autonomy, on the basis of two
hypotheses about violence in the media and aggressive behaviour. The first hypothesis says that exposure to media violence
causes aggressive behaviour; the second, that humans have an innate tendency to copy behaviour in ways that bypass conscious
deliberation. I argue, first, that Hurley is not successful in setting aside the argument from autonomy. Second, I show that
the empirical data are irrelevant to statutory regulation of media violence. They do not yield a sufficiently strong correlation
between exposure to media violence and non-autonomously copied criminal violence, and they do not yield a way ex ante to individuate the viewers who will be affected by media violence.
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Keywords: | Aggression Autonomy Freedom of speech Hurley Imitation Media violence |
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