[Obadiah]

I don't believe he's saying video games in isolation, but rather, in the context of an "anything goes" society. That is, the guard rails have been removed and any behavior is now acceptable because leftists have removed absolutes, there is no right or wrong, just whatever you feel is right or wrong. That, combined with violent video games and movies does, in fact, coarsen society.

[Terpfen]

There has yet to be any act of violence, random or planned, that has a significant cause in something the perpetrator observed while playing a video game.

The entire “video games made me do it” argument is based upon three false premises: one, that all video games, or at least the majority of them, are violent; two, that video games do influence behavior; and three, that those violent video games have been available for a long enough period of time that they’ve irreversibly affected someone’s behavior—though we’re never quite told just who is being influenced.

Video games are simply the latest media and political scapegoat in a long line of the ignorant blaming of culture for the failings of the family. Remember, Elvis was once considered to be Satanic.

[Malesherbes]

Well said, Obadiah. As for video games, my main beef with them is that they are a grand waste of time, and are probably addictive. There’s a wonderful century old book called “Flatland” about what it’s like to live in a two dimensional world.

[redangus]

Very well said. It is the general coarsening of society of which violent video games, rap music, senseless violence on TV and in movies and lax standards of civility are all part of the problem. I watched Newt yesterday and this article doesn’t really make the whole point of what he said, imagine that.

[Paperdoll]

>That, combined with violent video games and movies does, in fact, coursen society.<

Don’t forget the brainwashing muslim Rap “music” playing on the i-pods of children today.