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Someone on the radio said some time ago about how a bloke went out & raped someone because he was excited after watching an acted rape on the television.
It got me thinking about how all things are blamed for violence/criminal activities without good proof. Including videogames.
Do any of you think that playing Quake or Goldeneye would force you (or anybody for that matter) to go down to your local school with a sawn off?
Does watching Tom & Jerry cause kids to shove milk bottles down each others throats?
Would watching a violent sex act on the television give anyone enough reason to do the same to the next stranger they saw?
I believe the answer to all these questions is no. None of the above cause violence/crime. A simple answer could be made from stealing a line from The Simpsons :
"There was violence before cartoons"
As well as that, there was violence before videogames & Tv's.
While that statement doesn't exactly blow the arguement out of the water, I still think that if someone has committed a crime after playing a game, they were probably going to do it anyway. If all that was required was a trigger to set them off, it could have been anything. The TV news reports violent crime at least once a week. Newspapers do the same. Whats to say that the same person was or wasn't going to have his criminal feelings aroused by these???
I dont think outside influence is to blame for violence. I think its down to the actual person themselves. And if they are capable of doing these things, they deserve to be locked up anyway...
Lemme hear your views...
It got me thinking about how all things are blamed for violence/criminal activities without good proof. Including videogames.
Do any of you think that playing Quake or Goldeneye would force you (or anybody for that matter) to go down to your local school with a sawn off?
Does watching Tom & Jerry cause kids to shove milk bottles down each others throats?
Would watching a violent sex act on the television give anyone enough reason to do the same to the next stranger they saw?
I believe the answer to all these questions is no. None of the above cause violence/crime. A simple answer could be made from stealing a line from The Simpsons :
"There was violence before cartoons"
As well as that, there was violence before videogames & Tv's.
While that statement doesn't exactly blow the arguement out of the water, I still think that if someone has committed a crime after playing a game, they were probably going to do it anyway. If all that was required was a trigger to set them off, it could have been anything. The TV news reports violent crime at least once a week. Newspapers do the same. Whats to say that the same person was or wasn't going to have his criminal feelings aroused by these???
I dont think outside influence is to blame for violence. I think its down to the actual person themselves. And if they are capable of doing these things, they deserve to be locked up anyway...
Lemme hear your views...
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In actual fact I think it slows violence down. I get frustrated easily I don't like fighting but I sometimes lash out.
Well I dont get like that anymore as I let my frustration out on a guard in Goldeneye or Perfect Dark. If your a man thirsty for blood maybe your violent out bursts is much better taking place on a virtual person rather than a real one. Doing it on Computer games is more fun anyway as you don't get arrested for it.
So you never know video games may be stopping many violent acts rather than causing it but either way there is no concreate proof.
Well I dont get like that anymore as I let my frustration out on a guard in Goldeneye or Perfect Dark. If your a man thirsty for blood maybe your violent out bursts is much better taking place on a virtual person rather than a real one. Doing it on Computer games is more fun anyway as you don't get arrested for it.
So you never know video games may be stopping many violent acts rather than causing it but either way there is no concreate proof.
Computer gaming violence has many levels there are the real hardcore bits like having to watch the spice girls dance and the softy bits like most of the action on Severance for the PC...:D But seriously though, I don't think that computer gaming as a whole has a very big affect, only that when it is mixed with things like say wrestling kids get a double dose of the action and go mad!
People can blame videogaming all they want, but nowadays it is always someone elses fault, most of these posh types would rather go to see a wrestling match and say that videogaming caused all the violence rather than stay at home and 'watch the cricket' That is their problem, they don't know what to blame so they blame 'us'.
Well I say screw them. I am not leading a rebellion, (shame), but I do think that they are just showing hopw pathetic they are by saying...
'Wahhhhhhahahahahahahah' Computer games did this....computer games did that! I have never played mario Bros. before and I am really stupid!
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People can blame videogaming all they want, but nowadays it is always someone elses fault, most of these posh types would rather go to see a wrestling match and say that videogaming caused all the violence rather than stay at home and 'watch the cricket' That is their problem, they don't know what to blame so they blame 'us'.
Well I say screw them. I am not leading a rebellion, (shame), but I do think that they are just showing hopw pathetic they are by saying...
'Wahhhhhhahahahahahahah' Computer games did this....computer games did that! I have never played mario Bros. before and I am really stupid!
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As far as I see...
Perhaps some git out there, with an already twisted mind, will play GTA, and think, hey! That's a great idea!
The thing is, old women and MPs hear about this game, and all they hear is:
"The objective of this game is to make points by killing people and committing quite horrendous crimes."
Humm.
But that isn't the point, is it? The point is that it is FUN.
And that's all games are meant to be...
And before people start accusing the game for "corrupting" peoples minds... how do you think the games makers minds were "corrupted" so much, to make them want to make the game?
The root of all evil is money... and that seems more true here, than in any other subject.
Perhaps some git out there, with an already twisted mind, will play GTA, and think, hey! That's a great idea!
The thing is, old women and MPs hear about this game, and all they hear is:
"The objective of this game is to make points by killing people and committing quite horrendous crimes."
Humm.
But that isn't the point, is it? The point is that it is FUN.
And that's all games are meant to be...
And before people start accusing the game for "corrupting" peoples minds... how do you think the games makers minds were "corrupted" so much, to make them want to make the game?
The root of all evil is money... and that seems more true here, than in any other subject.
Someone on the radio said some time ago about how a bloke went out & raped someone because he was excited after watching an acted rape on the television.
It got me thinking about how all things are blamed for violence/criminal activities without good proof. Including videogames.
Do any of you think that playing Quake or Goldeneye would force you (or anybody for that matter) to go down to your local school with a sawn off?
Does watching Tom & Jerry cause kids to shove milk bottles down each others throats?
Would watching a violent sex act on the television give anyone enough reason to do the same to the next stranger they saw?
I believe the answer to all these questions is no. None of the above cause violence/crime. A simple answer could be made from stealing a line from The Simpsons :
"There was violence before cartoons"
As well as that, there was violence before videogames & Tv's.
While that statement doesn't exactly blow the arguement out of the water, I still think that if someone has committed a crime after playing a game, they were probably going to do it anyway. If all that was required was a trigger to set them off, it could have been anything. The TV news reports violent crime at least once a week. Newspapers do the same. Whats to say that the same person was or wasn't going to have his criminal feelings aroused by these???
I dont think outside influence is to blame for violence. I think its down to the actual person themselves. And if they are capable of doing these things, they deserve to be locked up anyway...
Lemme hear your views...
It got me thinking about how all things are blamed for violence/criminal activities without good proof. Including videogames.
Do any of you think that playing Quake or Goldeneye would force you (or anybody for that matter) to go down to your local school with a sawn off?
Does watching Tom & Jerry cause kids to shove milk bottles down each others throats?
Would watching a violent sex act on the television give anyone enough reason to do the same to the next stranger they saw?
I believe the answer to all these questions is no. None of the above cause violence/crime. A simple answer could be made from stealing a line from The Simpsons :
"There was violence before cartoons"
As well as that, there was violence before videogames & Tv's.
While that statement doesn't exactly blow the arguement out of the water, I still think that if someone has committed a crime after playing a game, they were probably going to do it anyway. If all that was required was a trigger to set them off, it could have been anything. The TV news reports violent crime at least once a week. Newspapers do the same. Whats to say that the same person was or wasn't going to have his criminal feelings aroused by these???
I dont think outside influence is to blame for violence. I think its down to the actual person themselves. And if they are capable of doing these things, they deserve to be locked up anyway...
Lemme hear your views...
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