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I personally don't enjoy violent video games myself, but I don't really see them as being the sole cause of violent behavior. I think there's a possibility that it is a contributing factor, but not the root cause.

Let's take Bobby for example:

If Bobby becomes a serial killer it's hardly because he played COD every day; there are almost certainly some other factors at work. However, it probably didn't help that he spent every afternoon after school shooting people up on a television screen.

However, the fact that playing COD probably contributed somewhat to Bobby becoming a serial killer is no rationale for banning violent video games altogether. That would be like banning comfortable sofas because they contribute to obesity. They probably do play a factor in why some people feel the need to sit on their ass in front of a TV for hours every day, but comfortable sofas are not the root problem.

But don't get me started on video games and obesity. . . . if I could ban all video games, I would, just to spite all the fat slobs that sit around all day doing nothing but clicking buttons on a chunk of plastic. But that's just me.

Yes, we can all simply point to the massive spike in violent crime correlating to the ever increasing presence of violent video games...... oh wait. That didn't happen.

Basically the assertion is that being exposed to something A)increases the desire to do that thing, or B) normalizes that behavior to the point where you apparently don't realize you are doing it, or some combination thereof. This is just dumb. I suppose butchers and slaughterhouse workers are banned from keeping pets, cause they just can't stop killing animals eh? Soldiers, that actually, y'know go out and kill people are obviously banned from owning firearms, right? Since there'd be no way for them to not just keep on killing people after all. The entire argument is hinged on the idea that on some level, at some point, people cannot separate reality from fiction and lack any self control, which I find laughable.

Do crazy people do crazy things? Yeah. Do some crazy people play video games? Sure. That's all. You'd think after so many successive generations of people freaking out about some new thing, saying it's going to destroy the world and make kids all turn psycho, more people would take these sort of things with a grain of salt. I mean, booze, weed, dancing, skirts, rock n' roll, hip hop, role playing games, hula hoops and zimas... and the kids haven't picked up machetes and taken to the streets yet.

Huh Weird is all i can say on the matter.

Ahtman wrote: Humans don't exist in binary states.

Not true. I in no means am against the military, but military personel are indeed divided into two groups: The really cools ones that if you were to walk into a bar that was filled with them you would buy them all a round for free, and the kind that if you walked into a bar filled with them you would bar the door and set it on fire.....

I work retail in a store that serves alot of Military personel, and beleive me, they either never acknowledge your existance or greet you with a smile. It's never just a nod, it's never just a gesture, they literally seem to be polarized this way.

Slarg232 wrote:

Ahtman wrote: Humans don't exist in binary states.

Not true. I in no means am against the military, but military personel are indeed divided into two groups: The really cools ones that if you were to walk into a bar that was filled with them you would buy them all a round for free, and the kind that if you walked into a bar filled with them you would bar the door and set it on fire.....

I work retail in a store that serves alot of Military personel, and beleive me, they either never acknowledge your existance or greet you with a smile. It's never just a nod, it's never just a gesture, they literally seem to be polarized this way.

...That's not...grupbfle...


Ok, you honestly don't really believe that the people your describing simply exist on one single level of "being" at all times...do you?

...Or that they're simply..."bad" or "good"...with no shades of gray at all?

FITZZ wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Ahtman wrote: Humans don't exist in binary states.

Not true. I in no means am against the military, but military personel are indeed divided into two groups: The really cools ones that if you were to walk into a bar that was filled with them you would buy them all a round for free, and the kind that if you walked into a bar filled with them you would bar the door and set it on fire.....

I work retail in a store that serves alot of Military personel, and beleive me, they either never acknowledge your existance or greet you with a smile. It's never just a nod, it's never just a gesture, they literally seem to be polarized this way.

...That's not...grupbfle...


Ok, you honestly don't really believe that the people your describing simply exist on one single level of "being" at all times...do you?

...Or that they're simply..."bad" or "good"...with no shades of gray at all?

I know that when they walk into that building they act one way and one way only.

I even know some "Repeat offenders" by face, that's how bad (or good, depending) some of them are.

I'm going to look into this some more, I like it..