Gamer Haters
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Computer games are the cause of all evil -.- what a crock of shit, I dont think any of the dictators in the world have ever played computer games. Maybe if they did they wouldnt be such a bunch spanners.
Whats up with nutters is that they are insane and dont have a problem with hurting or killing people. They just dont see why they are wrong and even if some people do know what they are doing is wrong they just done really care.
Leave computers games alone
Whats up with nutters is that they are insane and dont have a problem with hurting or killing people. They just dont see why they are wrong and even if some people do know what they are doing is wrong they just done really care.
Leave computers games alone
Games have HELPED inspire a few senseless acts. But for the most part I think the effect they have is positive. A friend of mine came from a very rough area. Whilst the neighbour kids were joining gangs and generally being willfully ignorant, he was playing starcraft. Games kept him out of trouble and away from the tyrany of peer pressure, I'm sure it's not an isolated case. If it is absolultely necessary to be blaming something for our collective shitty parenting. Blame gangster rap...a culture that holds sexism, ignorance and materialism as virtues.
what most people dont understand is that games are an art. if you look at movies, paintings, or any other form of art there is violence in these too. i bet that some time during the 12th century the european government was blaming violent art on child violence
There are so many articles and essays on this topic. Just do a quick google for 'violent video games' and you'll come up with tons. My personal opinion is that violent video games DO in fact contribute to violent behaviour, but they do it in conjunction with heaps of other factors, like parenting, social status, mental and physical health, television shows and many more. The person playing them is probably the major influence on violent behaviour, and then you get into a whole new argument about if a person is defined by their experiences in life (still more factors coming into the argument) or if their 'soul' (for lack of a better word) is set from birth. 999 out of 1000 people (if not more) would probably use violent video games as escapism - doing what you can't do in real life, venting frustration and the like - or simple enjoyment, entertainment. The other person would see it as appropriate behaviour, majorly because of the stuff I mentioned earlier. They don't deserve this much flak from media. Focus on the big picture, not the tiny details.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard this, I could buy enough common sense for every Jack Thompson following fool in the world.
Really, I don't get the correlation between violence and games. You'd have to be kinda thick to look at a game and say "oh boy, I wanna make red stuff come out of them!".
They're just like PETA, who uses every fear tactic and tragic situation to their own ends, without caring for anyone's concerns.
Really, I don't get the correlation between violence and games. You'd have to be kinda thick to look at a game and say "oh boy, I wanna make red stuff come out of them!".
They're just like PETA, who uses every fear tactic and tragic situation to their own ends, without caring for anyone's concerns.
This is the truth hands down:
Video games are correlated with fury/anger. Fury/anger does not correlate to violence/actual crimes.
Video games most definitely are not a significant variable in a criminal. Saying otherwise would be ignoring the myriad of factors that pushed the kid into that position to begin with (Ex: bad family, poor genetic makeup, etc.)
Video games are correlated with fury/anger. Fury/anger does not correlate to violence/actual crimes.
Video games most definitely are not a significant variable in a criminal. Saying otherwise would be ignoring the myriad of factors that pushed the kid into that position to begin with (Ex: bad family, poor genetic makeup, etc.)
Fixed, coz honestly, it's been said so many times I could buy microsoft with that amount of pennies.Pendragon9 said:
It's because nobody really stands for anything anymore. Nobody wants to admit fault or guilt or take the blame for anything. We live in the time of accountability, when shit happens there always has to be someone to blame, someone to go down, when the guilty parties are to afraid to admit their fault they peg it on something faceless... like the videogame industry. Seriously, I'll bet if parents just interacted in their childrens lives more often this would not happen as much. The other day I saw a mother decline to punish her child because she didn't want to "make him mad." That is just a fail all the way. I would have got my ass whipped for the shit that little bastard was pulling. I don't see anything wrong with making your kids afraid of you, just a little bit.
Lack of understanding/education leads to fear. Kids spend their free time playing games, parents have no idea what they're about and are met with hostility when they ask about it.
From a media perspective I think they're just scared. Newspapers for example are an ageing medium and I'm guessing most young people get their news online. Newspapers try to seem relevant, so they create scapegoat's for the worlds problems and play on the fear that the parents have. Same can be said for televised news too...
What I don't understand is why nobody ever mentions parental controls. On Wii you can stop games with a mature rating from being played on the system alltogether. Why doesn't anybody ever mention that?
From a media perspective I think they're just scared. Newspapers for example are an ageing medium and I'm guessing most young people get their news online. Newspapers try to seem relevant, so they create scapegoat's for the worlds problems and play on the fear that the parents have. Same can be said for televised news too...
What I don't understand is why nobody ever mentions parental controls. On Wii you can stop games with a mature rating from being played on the system alltogether. Why doesn't anybody ever mention that?
In every case about these shootings I have heard of the shooter was either mentally ill or was under some other kind of stress. I think that human beings exit the womb with selfish, amoral destructive animal as a default setting and school shootings happen because the schools don't do a good enough job of civilizing children. Most non-gamers I know know that games don't make you evil, just a dork.