Violent video games makes violent?

[Conquest10]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20060809/hl_hsn/violentvideogamesnumbplayerstoreallifebrutality

Am I the only one sick and tired of hearing this bullcrap? This one hits pretty close as one of the main examples used was Mortal Kombat. This game came out when I was a child and I played it regularly. I got them all for birthday gifts as they always came out around my birthday and played that game almost daily. Growing up, I was also always allowed to view violent horror movies (as my mom is very fond of watching action and horror movies).

According to these egg-head morons, I should have a body count higher than Gacy by now. But I don't. I have not even been in a fist fight. EVER.

Those that say violent media is the cause of a violent society needs to take a closer look at countries like Japan and stop putting blame for murderers on movies and video games.

[teegee420]

How else are these media whores going to get publicity if they don't go after video games? It's as simple as that.

[guns1inger]

The software is so 1990, and so it their thinking. While some individual studies have indicated some correleation in some suceptable subjects, these have usually been carried out by interest groups. The overall research suggests that for people of normal intelligence, film, television and video games are not harmful.

For the abnormal human mind, everything and anything is a potential trigger, and therefore dangerous.

[lordsmurf]

Police officers would also have "had similar heart rates and other signs of arousal before exposure to real-life violence". Does that now mean law enforcement training makes people violence? What about all those videos I saw in driver's ed? I actually find some stuff written in religious books and old literature to be twice as vulgar as some of the things I see in video games or tv shows.

[RottenFoxBreath]

having been witness to a brutal stabbing a few years back,and still playing video games,i would have to say,that those people are off there ******* heads..ive never thought about killing someone,and video games have never made me less repulsed by violence in real life.
theres no comparison,theres no de-sensitisation,utter bollocks.
its a ******* game...whereas if you die in real life or get a blade shoved in your gut...i would pretty much say theres a difference.
BUT...if you do show tendancies like that...whereupon you want to mow people down like a game..then your balls should be cut off and you should be placed in some mental institution somewhere.
i dont believe that mental issues are come upon,like one day you wake up and "hey,im gonna kill loads of kids,coz chucky told me to do it" or some shit..i think its genetic..its a corrupted or broken gene,and its waiting for the wakeup call..
theyve always been mental,just not showed it yet.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

I just love the feeling of climbing to the top of a a tall building and start shooting at random people with my sniper rifle......
.... In GTA of course!!!.

If you can't see the difference between the real life and the game world... boy you have a serious problem.

I think I have the biggest bodycount ever existed in GTA, and God forbid, I have NEVER EVER thought even about the possibility of doing it to a real human being or animal.

[teegee420]

I just love the feeling of climbing to the top of a a tall building and start shooting at random people with my sniper rifle......
.... In GTA of course!!!.

How great is that shit!? I play San Andreas all the time and do nothing but create utter carnage. :P

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

I just love the feeling of climbing to the top of a a tall building and start shooting at random people with my sniper rifle......
.... In GTA of course!!!.

How great is that shit!? I play San Andreas all the time and do nothing but create utter carnage. :P

Amen to that my brother!!!

KILL 'EM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[3Simon7]

When I was a kid I played with toy guns but I've never shot anybody.

I watched the Three Stooges but I've never pulled anybody's nose with
a pair of pliers.

I 'smoked' candy cigarettes but I've never smoked real ones.

And the beat goes on..........

[guns1inger]

That particluar study uses such a small number of subjects that as a scientific study it is worthless and proves nothing. Make it a few thousand subjects, and you will get close to statistical significance.

The problem is that there are a small percentage of people who cannot, for whatever reason (drugs, mental illness etc) tell the difference between real life and video games or movies.

The question then becomes "How much to we take away from the sane, in order to protect them from the insane ?"

More serial killers and mass murderers come from abusive backgrounds, often with over-zealous religious fundamentalism also heavily involved. Between them they have a much higher real-life body count that any spotty little game player.

[kschang]

It's also easier to point a finger at ONE game, than tens of thousands of lousy parents.

EDIT: I can't spell "than". :P

[lordsmurf]

More serial killers and mass murderers come from abusive backgrounds, often with over-zealous religious fundamentalism also heavily involved. .

And those are the kinds of people who also conduct the studies. The self-proclaimed "moralists" in politics and society. My, how things come full circle. Point the finger away from yourself, always easy to do.

[rallynavvie]

I recall Jon Stewart lambasting a similar issue a month or so back on the Daily Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LenbSKbn-U

And what's so bad about desensitizing people to violence? On the positive side one may be able to react rather than panic in a situation like that. I can't believe they stated the opposite in the study in that article. So because they had less reaction to violence witnessed on a TV screen they're less likely to react to such a situation to render aid? I found out pretty early in life that I couldn't jump through the TV screen to save people.

And as to kids getting ahold of violent games that is plain and simple the parents' fault. We shouldn't be going after the video game, movie, or music industry, we should be going after the bad parents.

[Super Warrior]

I recall Jon Stewart lambasting a similar issue a month or so back on the Daily Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LenbSKbn-U

And what's so bad about desensitizing people to violence? On the positive side one may be able to react rather than panic in a situation like that. I can't believe they stated the opposite in the study in that article. So because they had less reaction to violence witnessed on a TV screen they're less likely to react to such a situation to render aid? I found out pretty early in life that I couldn't jump through the TV screen to save people.

And as to kids getting ahold of violent games that is plain and simple the parents' fault. We shouldn't be going after the video game, movie, or music industry, we should be going after the bad parents.

Yup i read an actual article about this woman in congress giving a speech about violent videogames. It read something like this:

"I sit there as my kids play all these violent games, helpless to do anything about it. Where has the system failed?"

Oh man what an idiot. The fact is: In her home *SHE* was the system, and she is the one that failed. If she does not want her kids playing violent games, she should not buy them for her kids. Simple.

Lazy ass parenting is what that is. Sadly there are just far too many stupid people in this world who practically expect the government or some other outside party, to raise their kids for them.