Perhaps it’s better that people do this in a virtual world rather than the real one.
Whatever is not of faith is sin.
He wasn’t describing a computer game he was describing our leftist pop-culture
It’s hard for me to believe that people who play this game and others like it are not convicted somewhere deep inside, about how horrible that kind of imagining is. “oh be careful little eyes what you see.....” etc. I guess we’ve lost our consciences; no need laws, only need to follow the inner law that is there; used to be anyways.
Video games are no more to blame for mass murders than the NRA is.
Millions of people play ‘violent’ games, few will kill anyone for real and I would think almost all of those that do would kill anyway because their mental illness or gang affiliation is not determined by how long they play Grand Theft Auto.
If TV was so influential on behavior, then there would be sitcoms breaking out on the streets.
>> It’s a curious coincidence that Aaron Alexis, the man who massacred 12 people in Washington DC last week,
“A curious coincidence..”
To Hell with reason.
I have heard stories of clerks trying to warn parents about this one and the parents are buying it anyway.
IMO, the problem with violent video games is two-fold:
1) They depict lurid, criminal behavior as a normal lifestyle choice, thus “dumbing down deviance”. Kids raised to think crime is cool, and endorsed by weak “parents” who provide/allow the games, are less likely to grow into mature adults, who are able to control themselves, thus requiring expensive intervention (police, courts, and jail). Moral action starts in the mind; and you are what you eat.
2) Video games do not “cause” killing sprees, etc., but facilitate them and make the killer much more “effective”. For people with certain mental illnesses (some schizophrenic males), they train the mind to a pattern of violence that the real nuts finally act out like a script. With apparently millions of loons out there, (and they seem to attracted to the games), it’s a matter of odds that some will take to murder training.
So do we a) deny the “right” to the relatively few people who make mega-million$ making/selling mass-murder trainers; b) take away the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms from innocent citizens; or c) tolerate the inevitable massacres?
We are doing c by default. A sane society that wants to preserve itself would opt for a, on the same principle as “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theater.”.
Many kids play GTA and COD until they get bored or grow up.
Others are mentally ill and have violent tendencies and never grow up (accept responsibility for themselves).
If the Devil had his own bible, it would probably take the form of POLITICS. It would be sly and witty, enjoyable and slick. It would start with small, almost funny misdeeds.
It would offer the player the joys of money, successful violence and easy, responsibility-free sex. There would be drugs which didn’t fry your brain or burn holes in your nose.
You would be made to feel brave, while not actually needing to be. None of your pleasures would be paid for in coin, pain or grief.
Everyone else in the game would be disposable and forgettable. And it would contain one big lie. You would come out at the end happy and unharmed, and wanting more.
I don’t blame inanimate objects, be they guns or video games.
IMO, tetherball is the devil’s game