gamers equal serial killers?

[Zukhramm]

So I was in history today and my professor was explaining what in life leads to happiness. He was drawing some life diagram on the board and put down what most people do. it went high school-> higher education-> job-> good life= happiness. He then started talking bout bad lives and under high school he wrote ->video games = obesity, cyber stalker, serial killer! He then proceeded to talk about how if you play video games you'll end up one of these things and have a bad life. It was nearing the end of class and i was desperate to go to lunch so i didn't say anything on the matter.

My question is why is there such a bad rep about video games? do people honesty believe that games lead to people being serial killers or cyber stalkers?

If your professor did that, I suggest you find a new school.

 

[spartan231490]

So I was in history today and my professor was explaining what in life leads to happiness. He was drawing some life diagram on the board and put down what most people do. it went high school-> higher education-> job-> good life= happiness. He then started talking bout bad lives and under high school he wrote ->video games = obesity, cyber stalker, serial killer! He then proceeded to talk about how if you play video games you'll end up one of these things and have a bad life. It was nearing the end of class and i was desperate to go to lunch so i didn't say anything on the matter.

My question is why is there such a bad rep about video games? do people honesty believe that games lead to people being serial killers or cyber stalkers?

This happens because people cannot come to grips with the fact that humanity isn't perfect. We are a violent race, and whenever somebody breaks from social norms and commits an aggressive act of violence, we need to blame something, because we can't accept the fact that there is violence within all of us and that we aren't as civilized as we like to claim.

 

[briankoontz]

Video games have a lot of negative consequences, similar to those of other forms of entertainment. There's an obvious parallel to watching TV - it's a sedentary, solitary, largely non-intellectual, valueless activity.

This is the standard and best argument against video games, yet critics of video games rarely use it, instead relying on ridiculous statements.

The seductive power of video games is based mostly on technological possibility. We conceive that video games may become non-sedentary, non-solitary, intellectual, and somehow valuable, so modern video game players are pioneer sacrifices, wasting their time so that they might pass something valuable on to their children.

Gamers thus require a future of high technology and a course of actions that result in technological progress.

 

[sb666]

Jack the Ripper played GTA.
Charles Manson was a PONG fanatic.
Ed Gein LOVED the Saw games on the 360.
Ted Bundy played FF7 every time he killed someone.
David Berkowitz was a Dantes Inferno master.
John Wayne Gacey would spend hours a day playing text games on his C64.
Jeffrey Dahmer was just nuts (there's always one that doesn't follow the trend.
Albert Fish still plays Angry Birds on his iPhone.

what a crock of shit, hell if games lead to that, I'm sure some family would have sued Microsoft or Sony for murder when someone claimed that Halo caused them to want to kill. TV, comics, Games, Porn, Radio, Rock and Roll, Metal etc, all been blamed for societies problems...how about...some people TOTALLY SUCK and do not belong in society, PERIOD

that's my bit

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i cant believe i know who most of those are