attempts to undermine the legislators' credibility instead of addressing their argument generalizes from a sample that is unlikely to be representative of public sentiment presumes, without providing justification, that the people surveyed based their responses on a random sampling of movies fails to consider the possibility that violent movies increase the prevalence of antisocial behavior
Several legislators claim that the public finds many current movies so violent as to be morally offensive. However, these legislators have misrepresented public opinion. In a survey conducted by a movie industry guild, only 17 percent of respondents thought that movies are overly violent, and only 3 percent found any recent movie morally offensive. These low percentages are telling, because the respondents see far more current movies than does the average moviegoer.
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