My fellow escapists. WE WON. THE FIGHT IS OVER. SUPREME COURT VICTORY. We can stop attacking games cause violence people now. They cannot hurt us anymore.
British Soldier: Claiming Games Cause Violence Is "Nonsense"
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So, asking soldier (with no real technical field) about the effects of general psychology on a human has what relevance? No surveys? No studies? No theories(constructive)?
Last time I checked, psychology was a scientific field so lets stick with that rather than the opinions of infamous/famous people.
Last time I checked, psychology was a scientific field so lets stick with that rather than the opinions of infamous/famous people.
I wouldn't be so swift to discredit him. There are entire battalions of soldiers out there who specialize in exactly that field. Part of being in the special forces means knowing how much and what kind of force is appropriate for getting the right response in a given situation.mad825 said:
...Still means nothing. virtual Media and real-life are not the same hence the two distinct differences, if I wanted to know about how I would feel in a fight I would ask andy but if I wanted to know how would feel if I had a terminal illness...It would not be best.Tsaba said:
He still cannot give a conclusive reason or anything worth saying on why it is "nonsense".
Chuck Norris checks under his bed every night for Andy McNab
He's got some good points there. And his statements have force behind them because he was the best of the best. It's impossible for some politician who has never seen conflict to accuse games of causing violence without backing it up
He's got some good points there. And his statements have force behind them because he was the best of the best. It's impossible for some politician who has never seen conflict to accuse games of causing violence without backing it up
Guys, because of Arabic language structure and regionalism, you can spell Qaddafi many different ways. Kaddafi is acceptable, as is Qahdafi, Gaddafi, Gahdafi, etc.
And a scientist can?mad825 said:
As you said, Andy knows how to feel if he wants to hurt someone and since Andy knows that feeling, he also knows the feelings he gets from playing video games, reading books, watching television, and so on.
Sooooo, since Andy knows the difference on the effects of real violence and media violence on the brain since Andy has most likely experienced both, Andy is therefore more of an expert in that field than anyone else who would want to throw in their two cents.
I think the way we fetishise war and the military in general should probably get a a nice, stern look.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Anyway, what he says is irrelevant because detractors can probably trot out soldiers to say the opposite.
How else would we get young men to throw their lives away helping to overthrow radical dictators?Zachary Amaranth said:
Usually, a scientist would let their work speak for them...As in case studies.Tsaba said:
I know people who do get violent when playing computer games, what's you point? It still doesn't answer anything and leaves more questions than it can answer.
The only difference here is that this person is famous and respected by people, People are more likely to conform with those they respect.
Transliteration, buddy. He's, in fact, known with a "k", hard "c", or with a "q" like in the French "que" sound.Woodsey said:
OT: Hypocrisy, much? His opinion is just as invalid as that of Fox News, although his has no no malice. He's not a researcher, and his personal experience is not the reality of others. Games may or may not cause violence, only a study which is decades long can accurately make a claim for either side.
You mean "The people we were okay with until last year?"The_root_of_all_evil said:
Can't think of a better way.
Of course, I've always been a big fan of not pissing away human lives the way our politicians seem to love to, so I probably wouldn't be the one they put in charge of recruiting people for conflicts over fickle and arbitrary notions of allies and enemies.
Which kinda scares me, since that means some people respect Jenna McCarthy if they're willing to conform with her bullshit autism claims.mad825 said:
And I'm sure we've both know people who have got violent when they lose a sports competition, fail a test, fail in general. Because, that's the key word there, failed, no one likes losing.mad825 said:
He's famous, so what, it just makes it that much easier for him to be heard, when in fact, he's just restating what people have been saying it for a long time now.