Matt_LRR said:
Ace detectives working this case.
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Police treat every death as suspicious until proven otherwise, as they should.
BrunDeign said:
You know quite frankly, I have to disagree with you guys on this. There are times when video games are to blame. Of course the video game didn't mentally turn him into a murderer. It did however make him addicted to it to the point where he murdered his own mother over the thought that she'd take it away from him. It, quite literally, can be compared to a drug in that regard.
Of course this is only a rare case and seems to be unique to places where addiction in this form is unusually common (like South Korea). The rest of the times video games are involved in murders are because the murderers are psychotic, mentally fractured, or just plain aholes. Like the guys who murdered their "friend" because he somehow cheated at Madden. There's no explaining that.
This murder here though can, sadly, be attributed to too much gaming.
It's his addiction and his inability to deal with his anger that caused it, NOT games.
If I argue with someone about what resteraunt we're going to eat at and we get into an argument for two hours, at the end of which I kill them, are the resteraunts to blame? No. My inability to control myself when someone doesn't do things my way is to blame.
If the kid and his mother were arguing about a party he REALLY wanted to go to and the same things happened who would be to blame? Would we be seeing people say 'he had been going to parties regularly for 2-3 years now, so he was a party addict. Parties caused this!'. No.
A more general example - I shoot someone in the head. What was the cause of their death? Me or the fact that guns exist? If I didn't have the gun I would have used a knife or a lump of wood - is it the knifes fault? How about the tree?
Think back to when your parents told you that you couldn't do something you really wanted to do for what you saw as no reason, then and consider how you felt? Furious, angry, wanting to punch something etc etc. We've all been there for a million different reasons. Teenage boys more so then anyone. However most of us control ourselves despite feeling like we'd love to take our anger out on someone.
This murder can be attributed to a teenagers inability to deal with not getting his own way and the anger and frustration this caused him. The suicide can be attributed to the kid calming down, realising what he did and not being able to face it. The fact that he killed her violently during an argument supports this.
