rainbowloliofjustice:

Actually… you’re still the one who is wrong. Which is probably why you put this on anon.

The jaws effect is vastly different from “fiction affects reality”

Because Jaws didn’t make people afraid of sharks. People were already afraid of sharks, and with the limited amount of research and knowledge about sharks at the time, people had thought the movie Jaws was actually real or in any way based in fact. 

If the Jaws effect really was “fiction affects reality”, then people would still be killing sharks despite the vast amount of research and knowledge we have about them compared to now. 

Also, kids they buy those fish because they think they’d be cool pets, usually unaware of that a pet is a lot different than a movie, however, it’s because to kids, having a pet is also good. 

I don’t know how to tell you that if someone murders someone… I highly doubt a horror movie had any actual influence in whether or not they were actually going to murder someone. If you murdered someone… I think you were going to murder someone regardless of the movie. Otherwise, anyone who has seen a horror movie or watches them regularly would be serial killers. 

But because we know killing is wrong… we don’t go out killing people. Seeing someone die in a horror movie doesn’t suddenly make someone thing “Wow! Murder must be okay now because it was in a movie!” 

People are not that idiotic. People who can’t tell the difference between fiction and fantasy are the exception, not the rule