[Norm Lenhart]

“Apparently you weren’t following the discussion I was having with Mike3689. Video games and movies are quite different, just as video games - and movies as well - are quite different from books.”

Not at all. Show me the functional difference of playing army with a plastic toy gun and on A PS3 in Call of Duty.
In the mind of the child playing, body parts fly and blood flows regardless.

Ever woke up from a nightmare with sweat rolling off you? Your eyes saw nothing (like you would in reading/watching a movie/Book) but your imagination made it so real you were in total fear.

Same idea.

[LearsFool]

Show me the functional difference of playing army with a plastic toy gun and on A PS3 in Call of Duty. In the mind of the child playing, body parts fly and blood flows regardless.

I'm not sure how toy guns fit into the discussion. But I'm sure that body parts didn't fly nor blood flow in my mind when I played army as a boy.

Ever woke up from a nightmare with sweat rolling off you? Your eyes saw nothing (like you would in reading/watching a movie/Book) but your imagination made it so real you were in total fear.

Exactly. It's not the violence or evil that matters, but our part in or reaction to it. After all, violence and evil cannot be eradicated. So, as we grow up, we must learn the right way to deal with them. (And using Grand Theft Auto for practice does not help.)