14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away
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God, AGAIN?! This bullshit is happening way to often recently, in way too many different countries.
The problem clearly isn't with violent video games (although it may be related to games' addictive qualities), it's with parents too weak to raise their children properly. Well-raised kids simply don't do that sort of thing!
The problem clearly isn't with violent video games (although it may be related to games' addictive qualities), it's with parents too weak to raise their children properly. Well-raised kids simply don't do that sort of thing!
This is almost exactly how I feel.Simalacrum said:
This reeks of addiction more than bad parenting or insanity.
This story kind of reminds me of this (hilarious) anti-marijuana book I read in high school whose cover picture had two parents huddled in fear against the wall, while all you can see of the teenager reefer-addict son is his hand clutching a cork screw menacingly.
But seriously, this kid had a serious problem with whatever it was he was playing. Like crack, except in game for. My bet-WOW, a facebook game like farmville, Peggle, or some other little cheapy yet addictive game.
Best post in this thread, by far.Mackheath said:
Probably playing WoW. Is there any other game that can cause a person to kill a family member, then go on playing like nothing happened. Not even I would do that. I think...
Bloody hell. When I have kids, I'm limiting when you can play on the computer. I'm making sure they interact with people in person.
Lmao! I never noticed that it does until you pointed it out XD.are.you.the.god.its.me.vader said:
They need a new term for this type of behaviour ... I'm calling it 'Gamer rage' in respect for it's road cousin condition.
Just goes to show you the power that PC has over it's rivals
you don't hear of kids plowing a chainsaw into their parents after taking away their PS3 ....
Just goes to show you the power that PC has over it's rivals
you don't hear of kids plowing a chainsaw into their parents after taking away their PS3 ....
Video games are the flavor of the week (or generation in this case) comic books, RPGs, and rock music (of various flavors) have all had their time "in the son". Accusations of this sort and worse did not kill paper and pencil RPGs, and Rock Music not only had the violence and anti-social behavior to worry about (being tied into violent crimes both domestic and otherwise because the criminal was listening to hard rock with violent lyrics) but also the whole suicide thing to content with, with people claiming that the music was not only violent and/or satanic but also darkly mystical and able to take control of the minds of listeners and make them kill themselves.Dideriksen said:
I'm 34, I remember a lot of this stuff so the whole video game thing is especially annoying to me in part because I've seen it before. We have yet to have any incidents of suicide pacts or anything. I remember many years ago that there were two guys who both put shotguns under their chins and pulled the trigger, one survived and claims that he lost control of himself due to music and people seemed to believe it (at least in the left wing talk show circuit).
One of the problem with the media when it comes to cases like the one we're discussing (Russian Sledgehammer killing) is that it rarely looks at the overall situation. For all we know taking the keyboard away might have been the last thing in a long string of incidents leading up to this. If the kid was playing video games in his room like that for a week straight one has to ask what drove him to seek that kind of escapism...
For all we know he's a total psychopath, but there isn't enough information. For all we know he was driven over the edge, and honestly being able to calmly going back to doing something like that can also be a sign of shock, or simply a lot of mental preparation if this had been building for a while. Not everyone who kills someone is going to break down into hysterics, especially if they are mentally prepared... and honestly what else is he going to do while he waits for the police or whatever?
It will be interesting to see if there is any more information forthcoming. I can't judge one way or another.
It also vaguely makes me think of recent issues with Russia to America adoption that have been in the media recently, brought to a head by a recent issue where an Adopting American parent sent a 7 year old back to Russia due to severe (violent) psychological problems. Apparently Russia is throwing a hissy fit about the return, though it's hard to know what side to take and whether the kid was actually a falsely represented ultra-special needs case or not.
Makes me wonder about the enviroment as much as anything.
Man, if he reacted that way to having his keyboard taken away, imagine when they throw him into a cement room with a 1 foot by 6 inch pane of bullet resistant glass will do to him. He's going to land himself in solitary the first week!
I study the effects of the criminal justice system on society as a whole, and for all the evils that have been indoctrinated into the system, it's truly people like this that it was meant for. While prison in America is no longer a place of atonement and rehabilitation, I hope Russian facilities will help him.
I honestly hope the whole family (esspecially the mother that just watched her family shatter into pieces in a split and gory second) is okay.
I study the effects of the criminal justice system on society as a whole, and for all the evils that have been indoctrinated into the system, it's truly people like this that it was meant for. While prison in America is no longer a place of atonement and rehabilitation, I hope Russian facilities will help him.
I honestly hope the whole family (esspecially the mother that just watched her family shatter into pieces in a split and gory second) is okay.
And Russia's threatening to freeze adoptions to the US? Fuck, go ahead, you can KEEP your crazy mental Russian kids for all I care!! No remorse whatsoever, hope he gets a midget firing squad. Quick shot to the head's too good for him.