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To: Kaslin
It's a little dated, but it's time to replay the graphic that illustrates the epidemiological relationship between violent video games and violent crime:

There is even a causative theory to explain this: most violent crime is committed by young men, and violent video games provide an outlet for aggressive urges that does not result in actual violence, and thus does not result in violent crime.

Even if some spree shooters used video games as a "training aid" -- and it is clear from their own testimony that some have -- even if a vanishingly few unbalanced individuals are induced to real-world actions in imitation of video-game violence (and I have seen no evidence that even the spree shooters who "trained" with video games were turned to violence by them), the net effect of virtual violence is to decrease the amount of real violence in society and the occasional exception is akin to a side-effect of a beneficial prescription drug.

(Truth in advertising: I'm an old-school gamer. I never got into first-person shooter or other computer or video games dependent on reflexes, but they weren't around when I was in you youth. Hex-grid wargaming, D&D, the odd turn-based computer strategy game, M:TG (before they ruined it in Mirrodin block), . . . )

26 posted on 02/23/2013 8:20:04 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David; ilovesarah2012

There’s also this interview from Scott Ian of Anthrax, talking about how things are now. It directly correlates to gaming.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/disease-thats-hard-to-shake-20130221-2etn1.html


31 posted on 02/23/2013 8:51:28 AM PST by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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