Sonic 296 Posted May 25, 2007 Games, music, television, movies and other associated media teach you nothing. To sit behind a computer screen or television, playing or watching is very different from the act itself. There's more lurking beneath the surface of certain individuals than playing violent games or watching movies. I play enough shooters myself but am I a killer? I might be one example, but you'll see more people like myself than the wackos in the news that rampage through institutions, firing upon the hapless people. Columbine, Paducha, VA Tech... they're all the minority of gamers and movie patrons. In all of these incidents, the people involved were, in some way, predisposed to this sort of behavior. All they needed was a trigger and it turned out to be video games... and numerous cases about movies having the same effect. It's not the media causing the big issues... no, no, it's something else. It would be more accurate to say inattentive parents are contributing largely to this problem. If the parents don't ****ing step in and actually pay attention to their children, this begins to happen. In short, it takes more than simply playing video games to be a rampaging lunatic. Besides, take a look at the time before video games were so commonplace, you still had plenty of wandering wackjobs. A bit late in my reply...... but well said Share this post Link to post
