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/^t/If the crimes against human health are a serious offense the crimes against human intelligence are a mortal sin. Television distorts the perception of reality. Having watched a number of bloody crime stories, a woman is scared to death when passing by a clump of bushes in her neighborhood after dark anticipating a psycho-killer in ambush there. A school bully is not capable of treating his victims as human beings, having been exposed to all the violence, rape, and murder on TV. Still worse, people's attention span and aptitude are influenced. Excessive television watching makes a person unable to concentrate on a speech exceeding several minutes. Grammatical complexity of language and sophistication of vocabulary become an insurmountable barrier for an ardent sit-com lover. Writing skills are on the decline, reading becomes unpopular, deep thought is endangered - that is the price the human intellect pays for the invention of television.