>>How did so many millions of Americans get through decades of playing violent video games without killing anyone I wonder.
I’ve played video games and rpg’s since they were invented and still do at age 52 so I am certainly a gamer.
The differences are:
1) in the past, kids had a real life in addition to their gaming life. They got to experience pain and consequences. Today, all children are pampered princesses and consequences are for other people.
2) they had fathers to bring them down to earth
3) they were not on mind altering drugs just for acting like boys
4) games were not so realistic
5) the culture valued life and normality. Today’s culture values deviance, so the more deviant you become, the more value you think you have especially in light of #1-3.
If a parent teaches their kid right from wrong, there is no issue. Tens of millions of kids grew up with real guns, used them regularly around other kids hunting and never shot each other for kicks. Because parents taught right and wrong.
I do get your point. But I did get taught right from wrong and play the most violent games out there. I have no desire to go on a Fallout style purging because right and wrong are core to my being. Modern kids are no different.
And there's the problem.