Posted on 05/09/2008 12:32:34 PM PDT by PROCON
Come to think of it, you are right. Great job!
Guess you missed the part about how violent crime by juveniles is down.
It’s that old debate: Catharsis vs. Stimulus.
Does a violent videogame/movie/book lead you to commit violent acts (stimulus)? Or, do you use it to take out your frustration/aggression (catharsis)?
You have failed to protect your homeys!
Bet they won’t apply the same logic to guns and knives.
What video game is that from?
I apply that to better policing practices. Not more punks jamming their fingers on a button.
It comes with Half-Life 2 and its more team fun then a human should be allowed to have.
Burn baby burn...
Right, right, what are you, 90? Everyone under the age of 30 is a “punk” cause they’ve all played video games?
Upon what do you base this idea that juveniles are more violent today? Someone needs to get their fat little butt off the couch and watch a little bit less TV, especially a little bit less Dateline and Nancy Grace (that couch line is a little irritating isn’t it?), and look at the statistics. Not that there are more arrests or anything like that, the overall rate is simply down. Please tell me how in the world this is due to “better policing practices”.
I never said that video games reduce crime. I think they have all of zero effect on it. I also think that McDonald’s has much more to do with how fat everyone, not just children, is in this country, than does the video game industry. I simply think that saying video games have made people more violent is stupid and ignorant, and comes from watching far too many stupid and ignorant people on television.
Of course lets blame it on video games. It couldn’t be anything else, like not keeping score in youth soccer games, the banning of tag, zero tolerance, or anything like that. Nahhhh, it’s the video games
Kids are less violent these days, according to the article.
Trolls are a problem. They're hard to kill and they keep coming back.
Fairies keep trying to take over the country too.
No, I am 34. I grew up on a farm, we never had a VCR and my father reluctantly let us have a “pong” game on our old black & white TV. And do I thank my parent for it? You bet.
While in the Army in the barracks, did I play video games? You bet. I should have been out do things though. Video games may not make people more violent, but they sure as heck do not help things. THAT is stupid and ignorant to say, which is what this study, probably backed by some gaming organization has said.
In Boys Adrift it is one of the five factors that he describes in why boys are unmotivated today. And he talks about the “experts” that claim that video games “help” kids.
Is there any funding from the video game industry going to Harvard?
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