Video Game Violince.

[theaceofspades]

I play some really Violent Games (Grand theft Auto,Gears of war ect...) but that doesn't mine I'm a murderus Pycopath .A logical person doesn't watch Scarface then knock over a 7/11 .

[vampirate321]

their just games, and just as ace said, ppl dont just go around blasting p...I beg of thee... headz off with ray gunz

[mousemaylikecheese]

:Mouse dredges up an elderly topic :

Anger plays on every station...
Watching war made us immune


For these times in which we live
When the worst of what we live
Is laid out for all the world on the front page
And the sound of someone's heartbreak
Is a soundbite at the newsbreak
With a close shot of the tears running down their face

(do you recognize my song quotes?)

No, I wouldn't say that video games are a direct cause of violence, but I do think they're part of the general desensitization¹ of society. You watch seven acquaintances die, you're devestated; you hear about seven million people dieing, I don't know, in a war, you're merely a bit sorry if anything.⁶. These days, thanks to the media and movies and video games, and songs and stuff, violence and (irrelated) sexuality are everywhere, and you kind of have to learn to ignore it.

Plus, although sensible people wouldn't (I regularly vanquish hundreds of monsters in the dungeons, including, for some reason, hobbits,(Um, hobbits are usually peaceful--I'd think they'd run away if you're one of the big people, or maybe talk to you if you're playing an elf?) playing NetHack. I've even killed a couple shopkeepers...(in game), and I don't go around attacking people.) execute random violence after seeing it in a video game, I could see such things triggering an impulse in psychopaths, or persons who are really prone to paranoia, though.

¹Make your own footnote!!!!!^23
2With Rincewind's proof of insanity!
³I don't think I spelled it right, but I mean the de-sensitive-izing.^4
4Which reminds me of the word "dekulakization"^5
5Which I like for some reason(?), but isn't really related.
⁶A misquotation of Utopia In Power, which was quoting, I think, a pre-revolutionary intellectual.