Games - evil

[The Postman]

Actually. I don't care about videogame violence. It's the dumbfuck parents who can't read ratings on games that care about videogame violence. So sorry your electronic baby sitter turned out to be rated R.

[Campaignjunkie]

I was watching the video game presentation on C-Span, by Senator Lieberman and the National Institute of Media and Family a month or two ago. Their argument isn't that violent video games will cause players to mimic the behavior. It's that it will desensitize them to this kind of behavior, especially since they're actively pushing buttons to make it happen on the screen. Kids won't start killing female prostitutes, but they'll objectify women more.

The scientific evidence isn't very compelling though - all that's proven is that players become more alert and aroused, which can really lead to anything or nothing. Developmentally, it helps a lot with critical thinking and hand-eye coordination though, especially with complex games like GTA.

[jfas]

Maybe its the fact that life is violent and games mimic life creating a whirlwind of logic in a prudish, ignorantly blissful upper middle class social dynamic that creates a fear of the unknown or worse the fear of the known and the spread thereof. So I propose: who cares? play what you want, create what you want.

[Taylor Swift]

I only say one name:

JOHN CARMACK

carmacks life is like the source of the evil games in all of the face of nature.

[mike-0]

Also, i think it's a long way from clicking pixels to stabbing someone with a knife.

nailed it

[DaanO]

Even if sick minds find inspiration from something, the games are NOT the problem. Before you have a sick mind, you've been raised very crappy. People that kill 'because of computer games' would find their inspiration elsewhere, music, movies, books, anything (Damn you Shakespeare and your violent MacBeth!). The state of mind of these people is the problem, the cause of their killing. Games are, in these cases, just the last straw.

[RD]

Its not always the parents fault. There is something called freedom, being allowed to make your own choices you can do some fucked up things. Outside influences are pretty much unstoppable these days if you have a tv, an internet or just friends.

[hamst3r]

Games are what they are called "games". Anyone who finds the inspiration to kill or do harm to sombody by playing a video game has mental issues, and need help.

[DaanO]

Its not always the parents fault. There is something called freedom, being allowed to make your own choices you can do some fucked up things. Outside influences are pretty much unstoppable these days if you have a tv, an internet or just friends.

I never said people were raised by parents only. Friends, school, media, whatever, they're important as well i know.