Please there just looking for an excuse to blame there actions on something else. And besides meny scientists say gameing is good for you FPS's in perticuler enhance your awareness and eye hand skills.
Video games will not make you evil now if you excuse me I have helpless masses to subjagate. *Anoying evil laugh*
You are a Black Mage, master of the Arcane you unleash total destruction on your enemys.
You can keep your Little pea shooter and that over sized butter knife you call a sword. I have all I need with my black magic.
Games are there just to do stuff that you wouldn't be able to do. It's all just fantasy so it's a load of crap buying a game, playing it, and walking outside the next day smacking someone over the head with a baseball bat. Games can't make people do that unless they watch a crap-load of tv. (*Completes FFX, runs outside, comes up to the next small kid he sees, Mega Flare*)
Towelboy: Holy Cramoley, Poolman! It´s the devious Flashing Fiend with his abilities of extreme, evil, regretful imagery! How do we stop him?
Poolman: You can go home Towelboy. There´s biscuits in the fridge.
I'm angry because the media and censorship groups use this as a scapegoat rather than throwing things like mental health and family history in there. Yes, they do have an effect on you. I don't think that effect is great enough to justifie blaming everything on violent video games when a kid goes on a shooting spree.Originally Posted by Yamaneko
i play video games and im perfectly fine *twitches*
seriously though, im one of the most pacifistic people in the world, I really dont believe in violence sorting out disagreements because I dont think that being strong makes a person 'right' (having been a pathetically physically weak girl all my life)
However, theres nothing more fun than kicking butt with a big gun, or playing GTA vice city and lopping paramedics' heads off with a samourai sword. I rest my case.
Dylan and Klebold never tried to blame Manson (Or DooM), for that matter. It was picked up on by the press who, as ever, like their popular scapegoats. In fact, it is rumored they both disparaged Manson for being too mainstream.
"You know, not every kid that plays a violent video game is gonna turn to violence. And that's because they don't have all of those other risk factors going on," says Walsh. "It's a combination of risk factors, which come together in a tragic outcome." (From that CBS link, said by one David Walsh.)
Well yeah. Not every Muslim is going to pick up a knife and try hijacking a plane. Not every Christian is going to mount a crusade or three. But the risk factors are there!
Violent video-games do have effects on children. Of course if a child thinks it's cool to kill people in a simulated environment, then it must be kickin' rad to shoot a person in real life. I don't blame the video-games, though, but the idiot parents that buy them the games. A good parent should know what their kids are and aren't capable of understanding.
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If a person goes on a killing spree its not because they played violent games as a child. Theres a bigger problem that hasnt been addressed and violent video games are just a nice excuse to have like Marilyn Manson and the columbine high incident.
The question wasn't whether or not violent video-games would send you on a rampage, but whether or not they alter your way of thinking. Giving a child GTA for Christmas isn't a sure-fire way of turning him into a murderer, but it sure as heck will change the way he acts and thinks in some ways.
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Well sure, if you don't teach your kid how to think critically and be rational, you're going to have problems if he reads Roald freaking Dahl.
Or you could just not buy little Tommy Resident Evil 4 for Christmas.
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i never killed someone after playing Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven. i like to steal possessions, not lives > Yuff, you!
however, a scientific side of me found these discoveries emerged now after playing T3 for 2 years and a half:
1. i was normal. but my temper can be now be measured by inches.
2. in T3, innocent civilians make me laugh.
3. satisfied when? passing words of a T3 samurai.
Last edited by Yuffie514; 06-24-2005 at 12:38 AM.
Totally wrong! ^__~ I mean, did Hitler play Grand Theft Auto? I don't think so.
Well, I believe in music since the subliminal messages and all. But most of the time if here are, I'm sure the Band will go to jail if it's a violent message and everyone will be told.
I agree. Blaming your feelings and actions on objects you choose to use is ridiculous. Maybe if it's a situation in your life it would be understandable but it's silly to blame your problems on toys.
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People who claim that video games don't have some sort of impact on the way you think and behave are just being naive. That impact might be miniscule, but the influence is still there. Everything is an influence.
Does violence in video games lead to violence in real life? I say a big fat no to that question. Where we are in terms of youth violence is similar to where were were 40 years ago before we even had violent video games. In the 1950s comic books were viewed with the same suspicion that video games are viewed with today. It's all an attempt to try and place the blame on some third party instead of people taking responsibility for teaching kids not to stab each other in the face.
People should be more concerned about things like domestic violence influencing the way kids behave than worrying about video games.
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