Video game violence = IRL violence?Follow

They're right. If we got rid of every reference to violence ever in our entire society we'd have fewer violent acts.

Anyways I'm off to go shoot some people and run over some babies on my PS2. ttyl.

It's probably not the healthiest outlet for aggression if the child already exhibits some sort of overly aggressive traits, but I don't know that it's as simple as saying it can cause the behavior. Multiple factors can and do apply.

What worries me more than anything is that the games aren't really age-specific. Joph will only buy Jr. "kid" games, and he has a game where this guy flies out of his car during daredevil-type jumps, and the object of the game for him has become less about making the jumps and more about finding new ways to kill this guy. While I understand it's in good fun, I made sure to tell him that it was hard for me to watch, because even though "it's just a game", I see people with real-life injuries everyday. It was troubling to see such a sweet boy cackling at this broken body, and I wanted to make sure to affirm that these things *do* happen to folks, and aren't funny.

Then again, I don't even like scary or violent movies. I'm a peace-freak.

Twenty years ago, people were decrying pornography as the 'cause' of various things such as murder or rape.

Nowadays, the scapegoat of choice is video games (and terrorists).

To me at least, it seems like that rather than violent video games being the cause of shootings or rapists, it is something that can be seen as a symptom of people who were predisposed towards violence to begin with.

I myself have been playing games such as Doom and Mortal Kombat since I was seven or eight, and I have always had a clear line drawn in my mind that while it was fun, it wasn't real. It didn't desensitized me to violence (I can't stomach watching videos of people getting injured) either.

Edited, May 2nd 2007 5:27pm by Nightsintdreams

Yeah, saw that after I read the article/OP and replied.

Edited, May 2nd 2007 5:42pm by Nightsintdreams

And 20 years before that it was that evil Rock & Roll music!

Actually, there's always someone who will try to blame their poor parenting/chemical imbalance/posession by evil wombat demons/etc on something/someone else. No big suprise there.

Also, Sam gets me hard when she uses words like ubiquitous.

I still blame ****.

All these fornications, penetrations, facial ejaculations, DVDAs, blow-jobs, three-somes, skull fUcks, it just makes you want to kill people.

Or have a ****.

Either way, it's just as bad as Dungeons and Dragons.

its not the games, its us. humans have always been facinated with violance. violance is the path to power. intimidation. fear.

video games and tv are just a reflection of our facination.

but just like ****, the more you get, the more you want = the more you try to get. like feeding an addiction. eventually, you want MORE. and watching it just doesnt do it for you anymore.

liberals suggest hidding it from us, so mabe we wont focus on it and forget about it. doesnt work. but the problem is not the games or tv, its us. always has been, probably always will be.

videogames = us. volance in video games is a reflection of us.

why do you think sims online died so quick? no violance = no interest for us. thats why. i actually think online violance is a healthy outlet for us. a place where we can find what we want without actually hurting anything but someones feelings.

same with online ****. better at home on the computer than cruising the streets looking for action. you stop the violance on tv and videogames, we will just look for it somewhere else..........

the human condition. born of evil. Gods message was to try adn get us to rise above......OURSELVES. 2000 years ago he nailed the problem. US. why he didnt just destroy us is beyond me. but then again, i guess he did try, mabe thats what the whole 40 days thing was all about.

it is not the video games influencing US, it is US influencing the video games.

Intentional or not, you're officially going to hell.

Hiho, hiho...it's off to hell we go.

I don't know about you, but I found many fun ways to kill people in sims games. (Was the online version that much different from the offline versions?)

On topic, I personally believe in the theory that people who are naturally violent tend to play violent video games. If video games are going to actually have an effect it's going to be when kids are young. It's at this time when they usually set the first standards about how they should act and look at the world. In this case it's bad parenting that's to blame and not video games.

I do however find that I got very violent when playing tekken games and getting my *** kicked (Broke a couple controllers okgo.); this type of game isn't even really violent though. I'll blame this on the fact that I had a tiny 'anger' problem. :p I look back at the years when I could be calm and then I would just snap from trying to hold all the agression back for a couple days/weeks at a time and laugh.

In fairness to ****, I'm usually done after 10-15 minutes... Anything more would be overkill after a certain point.

Tonight, we dine in Hell!

On the other hand, playing too much Mario Brothers as a boy has lead me into a heathen's life of eating mushrooms every chance I get and kicking turtles.