Everyone is different.

One kid that plays the violent games will want to copy it and carry out those acts.

Another kid wont play them and will never even have the slightest bit of harmful thoughts.


Its all parenting and upbringing in my opinion.

how come we had so many violent murderers and killers even before we ever had video games?

Oh the irony of it all... before that it was probably lack of violent games that was the problem...

I'm sorry to disagree here but I have to...not only by the post above mine showing he did apparently have access to the games but with the whole concept here.

Do video games or movies CAUSE the violence? Of course not. Only someone on a crusade with an agenda a mile wide would suggest a direct cause and effect.

Do 10's of thousands of simulated murders with graphic detail CONTRIBUTE to a lesser sense of meaning and importance to violence and death? How couldn't it?

It's elementary, as one literary character opined.

I would hope that some scientist would figure out that murder sprees actually predate movies, television and video games. I bet murder even happened before writing was invented.

I enjoy repeatedly running over pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto, until my car blows up, jumping out and spraying everybody with my AK-47 whilst my car dramatically blows up the people it so gracefully crushed.

But it doesn't make me want to do this in real life.

The relation with bad behavior, video games & movies is in my eyes just a scapegoat. Same applies with the subject of guns & mass killings.

All a big cover up for their own grand agenda.

Better the PR corporations that control the media outlets use Video Games as a scapegoat to blame for excessive violence in society rather than point the finger at themselves for the serious psychological damage they inflict on the populace that stems from there 24 hour brainwashing by commercial interests.

Originally posted by Tuttle
Better the PR corporations that control the media outlets use Video Games as a scapegoat to blame for excessive violence in society rather than point the finger at themselves for the serious psychological damage they inflict on the populace that stems from there 24 hour brainwashing by commercial interests.

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Originally posted by butcherguy
I would hope that some scientist would figure out that murder sprees actually predate movies, television and video games. I bet murder even happened before writing was invented.

edit on 23-1-2013 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)

Sooooooooooooooo

please . . . such well informed wisdom and erudition must be able to tell us . . .

how many mass killings of faculty and classmates by students were there in say . . . 1952?

1955?

1940?

1850?

1960?

I think Obama has a point.

Perhaps in his formative years he played games like Tropico and Roman total war and this explains his desire to now screw and control his minions, produce weapons and wage expansionist wars

Perhaps the bankers played too many games of monopoly and found the only way to be assured of winning was to cheat

Let’s ban boxing and other violent contact sports that actually train our young to perform violent acts in the real world.

Its all noise. He is distracting everyone from the real problems he faces. Youth condemned to no future. A population enslaved in debt and the pursuit of the meaningless.

An ever growing gap between those that have everything and those that have nothing and more joining the nothing group every day.

He makes noises about violent games being a problem but says very little about our kids being killed maimed and turned into monsters in Afghanistan.

And just incase we begin to wake up all the governments of the world are removing the right to free speech and are desperately trying to control information available on the net

I would say, at most, people are much more desensitized from violence than ever before, but that's where I think it ends. A child (or adult) that is capable of mass murder, is capable regardless of movies, music, or video games. Some people are just predisposed to violent desires. Sometimes, good parenting is enough to squash those tendencies. Sometimes, nothing is.

What doesn't help matters is the apparently large portion of the gun owning public not having the sense of responsibility to keep their weapons locked in a gun safe, where the kid can't gain access. I'm not saying that would stop anyone from committing a violent act if they so chose to do so, but it does appear that the guns of the parents are readily available to these kids when they should not be.

I find it ironic as hell that they are targeting the gaming industry, although it makes sense for a variety of reasons.

Actually, I'm going to make a thread on this a bit later tonight.

Regarding this, well it's clear that there is no real correlation between violent video games and violent behavior. No more than any other violent media that you are exposed to. Television, movie, literature or otherwise.

It's a matter of environment, opportunity and intelligence. As well as the narcissistic idea that you have the power over life and death.

Common themes, found in all violent media. If you target one, you must target the other and that includes your little fan fiction version of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Then again, I guess violence and gore porn are only acceptable in the name of nationalism.

~Tenth