Manhunt

[Shadow Nexus]

Let's ban knifes.

Seriously though, I do believe violence can affect the minds of people. Yes, violent conducts can arise from the continuous viewing of violent actions, and yet this same violent conducts can be repressed through education. I play a lot of violent games, and I am not violent. Well, maybe verbally aggressive sometimes (Not as in screaming bad words, but as in glaring and puting some kind of deep evil voice saying nothing polite) but certainly I would not likely move to physical violence unless taken to a total extreme, and still not even then do I believe I could hurt someone much, with that I mean I would give the person a few punches but I wouldn't move beyond that (Well, such has been the experience the only two times in my life I have attacked someone who has made me royally pissed).

However, people of short intelligence and wisdom or short sanity levels can get driven to do violent actions. However, videogames are just a little factor on the whole collection of factors that may lead to this. Will you ban bad education? Will you ban loneliness? Will you ban genetic factors? Will you ban the fact ours is a damn violent society? Of course videogames are a factor that may lead to violent actions in SOME people, but they are not the only damn reason. Someone normal dosen't stab anyone because someone in a videogame does so. And someone normal can't get "unormalized" by a game.

And Manhunt sucks, anyway. I got it for free from the videogame site I work for to give it a review, and I had to play all the damn game, it was so terribly repetitive...

[Meow]

Back when Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers was first published, it inpired a lot of trends, including fashion and male youth suicide.

OOC:

It's important to note, though, that it might not have been so much an inspired trend than something brought more to the social forefront by the book's publishing. When a previously subdued issue comes suddenly to the public's eye, that issue can just as suddenly seem far more prevalent simply because the public's awareness is on the rise. i don't know anything about this instance, so suicide rates might well have abnormally increased. But there's always the possibility that its publicity brought more suicides to be reported and noticed.

Somehow i know that point figures into this discussion, but i don't feel like typing so i'll leave the implications to you folks. :aimsmile: