Congressman Wants Health Warning Labels on Games, Again
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WARNING: Violent videogame behavior reduces stress and depression in young adults. http://www.tamiu.edu/newsinfo/7-08-10/article5.shtmlJediMB said:
No, we only put warnings on things that have actually been proven to be harmful.
So, shove it Congressman.
So, shove it Congressman.
Angus565 said:
[WARNING]
Excessive exposure to the halls of Congress may cause:
- Psychosis (loss of contact with reality)
- Dissociative disorder (e.g. cannot remember how science works)
- Narcissistic personality disorder (inflamed ego)
- Pseudologica fantastica (pathological lying)
- Cognitive impairment (loss of intelligence)
- Megalomania (a compulsive need to be in charge of everything)
If you have been exposed to the halls of Congress for more than six hours, seek medical attention. If you have served for more than one term, seek committment to a psychiatric facility immediately. If you have served for more than three terms, seek a quickly-moving oncoming vehicle.
Excessive exposure to the halls of Congress may cause:
- Psychosis (loss of contact with reality)
- Dissociative disorder (e.g. cannot remember how science works)
- Narcissistic personality disorder (inflamed ego)
- Pseudologica fantastica (pathological lying)
- Cognitive impairment (loss of intelligence)
- Megalomania (a compulsive need to be in charge of everything)
If you have been exposed to the halls of Congress for more than six hours, seek medical attention. If you have served for more than one term, seek committment to a psychiatric facility immediately. If you have served for more than three terms, seek a quickly-moving oncoming vehicle.
You know what? I think that this is finally turning out like climate change in government. There are some people who have no expertise in any field relating to climate, who will take shoddy science and flawed studies and wave it around like flags, claiming that there is some giant conspiracy and that there is no such thing as global warming and that spending money on it would be a waste blahdy blahdy blah.
Then you have the people who have no experience in any field relating to video games, nor have they probably played one in their life, and they hold up shoddy studies and claim that video games are dangerous and we have to do something now before our future is corrupted blahdy blahdy blah.
Does anyone actually take any of that seriously? Anyone with half a brain stem could go look for studies themselves and see that neither of those claims are substantiated with any great amount of evidence, nor is the view supported by the majority of scientists. I feel like they are just going to keep shouting in the wind because it is popular thing to do and when they can't do anything of value it's an easy thing to fall back on. Why do we keep electing these crazies again?
Then you have the people who have no experience in any field relating to video games, nor have they probably played one in their life, and they hold up shoddy studies and claim that video games are dangerous and we have to do something now before our future is corrupted blahdy blahdy blah.
Does anyone actually take any of that seriously? Anyone with half a brain stem could go look for studies themselves and see that neither of those claims are substantiated with any great amount of evidence, nor is the view supported by the majority of scientists. I feel like they are just going to keep shouting in the wind because it is popular thing to do and when they can't do anything of value it's an easy thing to fall back on. Why do we keep electing these crazies again?
" So I state again. Disprove it." ?joebthegreat said:
You know who else uses that argument? Religious fundamentalists.
Can I disprove God exists? No. Does it make it fruitful to posit that he does because I can't disprove it? No. Occam's Razor baby. Why make the stretch.
Cheers.
FUCK.
*Slams head repeatedly into nearest wall*
Even if most of this research weren't complete bullshit, there's one thing that always seems to fail to be taken into consideration.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc anyone? Correlation DOES NOT equal causation, Jesus Mary mother of fuck, it's logically fallacious to assume that simple correlation equals causation.
It's like referring to a correlation discovered some time back between the amount of ice creams consumed and death by drowning, does eating ice cream increase your chances of drowning? Hell no, the simpler and more logically accurate explanation would be to consider the other possible reasons why the correlation might exist in the first place.
Heaven forbid that there aren't genetic predispositions which preclude people to increased violent tendencies given appropriate stimulus.
*Slams head repeatedly into nearest wall*
Even if most of this research weren't complete bullshit, there's one thing that always seems to fail to be taken into consideration.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc anyone? Correlation DOES NOT equal causation, Jesus Mary mother of fuck, it's logically fallacious to assume that simple correlation equals causation.
It's like referring to a correlation discovered some time back between the amount of ice creams consumed and death by drowning, does eating ice cream increase your chances of drowning? Hell no, the simpler and more logically accurate explanation would be to consider the other possible reasons why the correlation might exist in the first place.
Heaven forbid that there aren't genetic predispositions which preclude people to increased violent tendencies given appropriate stimulus.
The exact opposite can be said about violent videogame's mental effects on people...
Hmm, anyone see the relationship between his last name and bakka, the japanese phrase the losely translates to, ohh I don't know... IDIOT!
Maybe a bit extreme, but seriously...
Hmm, anyone see the relationship between his last name and bakka, the japanese phrase the losely translates to, ohh I don't know... IDIOT!
Maybe a bit extreme, but seriously...
Isn't California's economy in the toilet right now? Shouldn't he be focusing on, you know, THAT, instead of trying to present his obscure social norms as truth despite all the evidence against?
And aggressive people like to breathe air and eat cereal.JediMB said:
There is no evidence, you could just as easily link eating rye with "I know it's not butter" butter on it as the decisive link to why people are aggressive, or could just as easily say it's in there genes.
EDIT: But, yes I agree with you full-heartedly that there is no proof to his claim.
Oh look, another politician trying to get attention by riling people up over a controversial issue that isn't actually as controversial as they would like to think.
That's it, I'm signing up with the video game voter's network.
That's it, I'm signing up with the video game voter's network.
There should literally be a law against people's own stupidity (Unfortunately that would eliminate 90% of the internet). It should be a Law or Rule, that to take any sort of media entertainment to court or to have a bill passed, you must have ACTUALLY used it yourself. It's like the 'Mass Effect' or 'GTA' controversy all over again. Fox claimed 'Mass Effect' had full and uncensored sex scenes (Facepalm), and many critics who've never owned a game console have claimed things like 'GTA gives points for killing hookers' (Wha? Since when did they switch over to a point system). Geez, maybe we should pass a Bill that says all these old F**kers in government need to be ousted and replaced by people who are actually from the last 2 generations. Cause then maybe we'd have people with common sense and who know more about the modern world then what they've heard from their hallucinations brought on by going senile.
I live in Canada. Any representatives of mine have no sway in American politics and my own government isn't so inclined to attack the industry. It's a shame because any damage done to the American games industry is damage done to the world-wide games industry.Uriel-238 said:
Any Americans should take note of that though
