Video game makers may be held accoutable for teen violence

"If you sit up and watch this and play these games over and over again... it seems that this is alright to walk up and hit a police officer over the head with a bat," Hanson said.

http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4145676.html

 

It's so stupid! Everyone knows violent games don't make violent people. Ban that wrestling shit, more people have been injured/killed from watching that crap than playing games.

 

oh i believe it. my 10 yr old cousin plays those stupid war shooting games and hes a nut ball. he cant go a day without playing it and we tried telling my aunt but shes like i dont think its wrong! nicky turned out fine!

but she doesnt realize that our day in the game world was silly...they didnt have all the graphics like kids do today. its sad. If i ever have a son. I wouldnt dare let him play those kinds of games

 

I guess there'll be a sharp rise in decapitations once god of war 3 comes out:

 

:smilielol5:

That would be the day for sure

 

insane.

 

Another state tried to ban violent games from all arcades in the state some years ago

It failed

I do not think this one will

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gpyTtlynCw

 

so what? look at the graphics they had during the first part of the 20th century:


but they still managed to exploit, abuse, massacre, and otherwise harm people in a way far more intense than what the common asshole on the street does.

violent video games don't make you violent, and neither does media portraying violence. i've enjoyed plenty of both without ever committing an act of real violence.

on the other hand, violent media is really attractive to violent people.

correlation does not necessitate causation

 

Fantastic point

 

there's not even a correlation, teen violence has gone down, violent video games have gone up.

 

A correlation between violent teens being attracted to violent games was the point I think?

Like flies to the poop it is only natural that people with a violent disposition are naturally drawn to violent subject material

 

tryoull story: there is a direct link between ice cream sales and homicides during any 24 hour period in new york city.

the reason is that new york is very densely populated.

ice cream sales skyrocket when the weather is nice and people go outside to enjoy it.

so do the incidents wherein people run into others they don't like, get in fights, whatever. it doesnt matter how it starts, but murders are far more common when the populace is out walking around and interacting with each other.

does this mean we should ban ice cream? does it mean we should make people stay inside if it's warm, with clear skies?

 

They should be held responsible, especially the ARMY that has helped to develop some of these games so that when kids turn 18 they're ready to fight in some bullshit war.

 

Not true. Studies have shown otherwise.

http://www.slate.com/id/2164065/

 

im not reading all of that, just quote where it says teen violence has gone up.

 

this is a popular article and only references summaries of actual studies, and data needs interpretation. there is no reason to assume this popular article has correctly interpreted the data, or even that the researchers themselves correctly interpreted them.

they don't seem to consider predisposition to violence, and don't seem to consider the fact that violent people generally do become increasingly unpleasant over time as a result of their personality

i think it's a difficult thing to discuss intelligently because it is easy to demonstrate that there is a link between violent people enjoying violent video games, but very difficult to demonstrate any kind of generation of violent behavior as a result of playing violent games.

loud noises are not violent, they are annoying. a person being more likely to try to be more annoying than otherwise as a result of your variety of entertainment is different than beating someone to death with a bat. further, this confuses me because while i'm unfamiliar with wolfenstein 3-D, i've played myst as well as the second game in the myst series - and there are no opponents

 

sweet. I'm gonna go rob a bank now. If I get caught I'll just blame Jesse James

 

but this shits been going on for a long time---we had luche libre --mexican wresteling and during the commercials me and my brother would fight and try moves on other kids that we learned from wresteling---then Bruce Lee took over the world and everybody was really kung fu fighting there was a dojo on practacally every corner where u could learn to fight and wed go to the movies and pick fights with other kids to try our moves--maybe cas i grew up in LA and violence was a way of life gangbangers but no guns yet so not so bad i dont know kids copy what they learn from in my day movies and tv so now video games----shit will happen i saw Bruce Lee take over the world and if one of these games is cool as that then heads will roll or whatever they do on the games --im old 47 so i dont even know how interactive shit is but we used to fight each other just bcase of movies and tv---we definatly come from different worlds LA when a kid then whever you r---maybe its enviornment---but it was soo cool to be able to fight like Bruce Lee and masses of people were doing it fuck we were busting each others heads with those homemade nanchucks sticks till they made them a felony---throwing stars-- injuries everywhere and no one ever tried to Ban Bruce Lee flicks----and i was so far into LSD shrooms and mescaline that i shoud have been at peace with the world but that shit made u fight better and more flowey LSD and shrooms dont equal peace alone----but then again id kill any too itrospective trip with alcohol---too much info i didnt want--i know what the world wants it wants peace but humans are cancer of the earth----mescaline told me so