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Re: Are video games to blame?
« Reply #15 on Apr 12, 2005, 10:19pm »

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I have essentially the same opinion of everyone else here. Video games aren't neccesarily to blame. It is true that some kids are extra impressionable and video games may influence their violent behavior, but in a perfect world, their parents would actually know their tendencies and keep unsuitable games away from them.

Interesting point: According the 2000 Guiness book of world records, Germany has the strictest policy involving video game violence. Any violence in video games must be directed towards zombies, monsters, etc, not people.

damn that sucks:(

i guess it depends on who's playing the video game really

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Re: Are video games to blame?
« Reply #16 on Apr 13, 2005, 1:08am »

I will totally agree with that. Different people respond differently to stimuli.

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Re: Are video games to blame?
« Reply #17 on Aug 13, 2006, 1:31pm »

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but i've heard of some groups trying to ban some games recently and it made me want to stab one of them. Then i remembered this thread and thought i'd get a much shorter prison sentence by posting here instead.

I didn't re read any of this so i'm sure these points have been made, but i'm kind of venting here.

Games are NOT to blame in any sort of way. I may have said otherwise before, but i was wrong.

People who blame video games for violence are only using it because its sucy an easy target. And what was the blame for violence 30 years ago? Movies right? Movies were too violent, they caused violence. But what about before there was violence in film? Could it have been books? Surely there was too much violence in books. But what about 100's of years ago when half the world couldn't read? What caused people to be violent then? The answer is not video games, movies or books. Humans are violent by nature, as are most earthly species. To further prove this point, look at poorer countries in the mid east who either have no games/movies in general, or have VERY heavily censored programming. What causes them to be violent? One of these anti-video game Forktards would probably say something along the lines of "Oh, well they are archaic, they aren't civilized like we are"

Hmmm, interesting, yes, so archaic people who have NO outside influence on them are violent...no influence by games or movies. So they are, shall we say, NATURALLY violent.

Now, lets take a look at the parents. Why did the parents allow their child to play such a violent game? Doesn't sound like good parenting to me. And how do these kids have access to guns? Parents, if you don't want you kids to shoot people, DON'T LET THEM HAVE GUNS! Games have a rating in the bottom corner, you should abide by those. Also, DON'T LET YOUR KIDS HAVE GUNS!

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