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To: MrB

Please, I don’t think video games are causal here, though it gives the story a convenient media angle. 20 years ago this kid would have stabbed his brother over Electronic Football.


45 posted on 07/17/2007 12:22:16 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: Callahan
"20 years ago this kid would have stabbed his brother over Electronic Football."

40 years ago this kid would have stabbed his brother over Electric Football -- the game played on a metal vibrating field.

Actually, he would have stabbed the one football player who always went in circles ...


69 posted on 07/17/2007 12:42:19 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Callahan

Sorry, I disagree. I believe the extreme level of violence and disaffectation in hip hop music, violent video games and popular movies (horror, X or R rated, etc) lead all too easily to this type of thing - an impulse that goes too far.

After all, we know the Army uses video games to desensitize their trainees to shooting and hand-to-hand combat.


90 posted on 07/17/2007 2:40:00 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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