A symptom of the disease or the cause of a disease?
a few peeple have been known to copy something they have seen in a film and act it out.
for most normal logical peple this is not a problem, but for the very few peeple who are already seriusly disturbed there are no answers.
peeple like this so called human being would have killed someone regardless of seeing something on the telly or in a film.
More of a cure I think, for many it fills the need for what they seek without actually having to do it, that said it won't stop everyone trying it, but making people carry out what they see, I dont hold with that view, I think if it is in someone to get a kick out of abusing or killing they will go ahead and do it regardless.
I don't think seeing something makes you want to do it if it's not there in the back of your mind already, otherwise every soldier would want to kill long after they left the army, every policeman would want to do drugs everyday after seeing the addicts, every doctor ..... get the picture