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Do You Think That Violent Video Games/ Movies Are An Issue

Do You Think That Violent Video Games/ Movies Are An Issue

  • No

    Votes: 64 72.7%
  • Yes

    Votes: 18 20.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 6.8%

  • Total voters
    88

Carjosse

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Lately the media, especially the liberal media has been scapegoating video games as a possible factor in the Connecticut shooting. Do you believe that violence in video games and movies are an issue and they can cause things like the tragedy we have seen recently. If you do believe they are an issue what do you think should be done? I personally believe that video games/movies cannot cause violence and blaming them is just a stupid reaction to a horrible tragedy. Video games and movies should not be censored or have enforced ratings like minors can't buy M rated video games. Please explain your opinion.
 
I don't think any MENTALLY NORMAL person will, simply by playing Call of Duty or Left 4 Dead or other violent video game, decide on that basis to go out and kill a bunch of innocent people at random.


A mentally ABNORMAL person may become fixated on ANYTHING, and not have the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, right and wrong... in which case the video game is not the causal agent, the mental illness is the cause.
 
Definitely, it desensitizes kids to violence.
 
For those constantly exposed to violence, it becomes the norm.
 
There is over 25 years of research and information from a variety of sources and no I am not going to list them all thats your job. to show that violent video games, tv shows or the like are a deciding factor or even a major one in such acts. If the child or person is NT (neurologically typical) then this holds. If they are mentally ill (NOT DD) or have some other neurological disorder which makes them prone to anger or violence who knows.

Right now as far as I can see there is too much conflicting information to know for sure what was with this person.
 
For those constantly exposed to violence, it becomes the norm.

I constantly play very violent games and watch very violent movies and I'm fine and most people are. It's those who are mentally unstable that it affects. What do you believe should be done about it?
 
Lately the media, especially the liberal media has been scapegoating video games as a possible factor in the Connecticut shooting. Do you believe that violence in video games and movies are an issue and they can cause things like the tragedy we have seen recently. If you do believe they are an issue what do you think should be done? I personally believe that video games/movies cannot cause violence and blaming them is just a stupid reaction to a horrible tragedy. Video games and movies should not be censored or have enforced ratings like minors can't buy M rated video games. Please explain your opinion.

These games will only affect mentally challenged people who are adversely affected by this sort of stimuli. I know a lot og fuys that play the most violent games, including myself, and none of us are violent people nor people that would do or condone this sort of action.

The issue is NOT video games nor guns.

The issue IS crazy people.
 
i think mental illness and the supply of affordable treatment is the issue.
 
I constantly play very violent games and watch very violent movies and I'm fine and most people are. It's those who are mentally unstable that it affects. What do you believe should be done about it?


Some people think that because a TINY TINY fraction of humanity abuses X, or reacts badly to X, that X must be banned.


I am not one of those people. :)
 
For those constantly exposed to violence, it becomes the norm.

Yeah... the norm. Playing a video game. Try again with your nonsense... :lol:
 
Some people think that because a TINY TINY fraction of humanity abuses X, or reacts badly to X, that X must be banned.


I am not one of those people. :)

I'm glad that logic is not applied to peanut butter.
 
A few years ago, I would have said no. For the past couple of years, I'm seriously starting to wonder if violence in video games is having a detrimental effect on some kids, because they get so wrapped up in them, that it may become an alternate reality, of sorts, especially when they spend so much time alone, and interacting with a computer.
 
A few years ago, I would have said no. For the past couple of years, I'm seriously starting to wonder if violence in video games is having a detrimental effect on some kids, because they get so wrapped up in them, that it may become an alternate reality, of sorts, especially when they spend so much time alone, and interacting with a computer.

I've spent over 200 hours in TF2 and over 120 in Fallout New Vegas and nothing has happened to me and I know people who have spent thousands of hours in those games, both very violent.
 
A few years ago, I would have said no. For the past couple of years, I'm seriously starting to wonder if violence in video games is having a detrimental effect on some kids, because they get so wrapped up in them, that it may become an alternate reality, of sorts, especially when they spend so much time alone, and interacting with a computer.


I'd agree that it is not healthy to let any child spent 8 hours a day 7 days a week playing Xbox... but I've known video game geeks who did exactly that, and pretty much none of them were a menace to society, so I think the key is that mass murderers are mentally abnormal to start with...
 
i think mental illness and the supply of affordable treatment is the issue.

Based on what? The CT shooter came from extreme wealth, hardly an "access" problem. I think more it is denial to admit that your kin may be seen as "defective".

Something like this "logic": Little Johnny is a bit odd, he pulls the legs off of grasshoppers and has no friends that like to play with him, but he will "grow out of it" OK - no sense in marring his "permanent record" with all of that psycho-babble, or trying to drug him into "normality".
 
Definitely, it desensitizes kids to violence.

That's like saying Tom and Jerry desensitizes kids to talking animals. :roll:
 
I constantly play very violent games and watch very violent movies and I'm fine and most people are. It's those who are mentally unstable that it affects. What do you believe should be done about it?

I would not agree its had no effect on you and others, I believe it makes you more accepting of violence in our society.
 
I'd agree that it is not healthy to let any child spent 8 hours a day 7 days a week playing Xbox... but I've known video game geeks who did exactly that, and pretty much none of them were a menace to society, so I think the key is that mass murderers are mentally abnormal to start with...

I agree with the bolded, which is why I said *some* kids, because I don't believe that all kids will be screwed up by playing video games. To me, the problem is that kids like the one who killed the school children, are already isolated, and aren't interacting with other people to help keep one foot in reality.
 
I agree with the bolded, which is why I said *some* kids, because I don't believe that all kids will be screwed up by playing video games. To me, the problem is that kids like the one who killed the school children, are already isolated, and aren't interacting with other people to help keep one foot in reality.

Agreed, but I'm not sure what we do about that, which will:

1. Actually have a positive effect, and
2. Not impose an undue burden on the innocent, (ie 99.9% of us).

Violent video games already come with warning labels for parents, and most game stores will not sell them to minors without a parent present to affirm it is okay.
 
I would not agree its had no effect on you and others, I believe it makes you more accepting of violence in our society.

Do you have any proof at all of this, I despise violence and guns. I am anti-gun, and believe that violence is only acceptable when all diplomatic channels have failed.
 
I would not agree its had no effect on you and others, I believe it makes you more accepting of violence in our society.

That would be my concern as well. Growing up in a hunting culture, kids learn that guns do kill, and they (hopefully) learn a little about the seriousness of using firearms. When you can play video games, where you are shooting human figures, and you get the reinforcement of sound and visual effects, but don't have to actually associate your own actions with a real consequence, I just think it causes some inability to understand the seriousness of shooting.
 
Agreed, but I'm not sure what we do about that, which will:

1. Actually have a positive effect, and
2. Not impose an undue burden on the innocent, (ie 99.9% of us).

Violent video games already come with warning labels for parents, and most game stores will not sell them to minors without a parent present to affirm it is okay.

I'm not really proposing that we do anything about it- just stating that I think it may be a problem.
 
I would not agree its had no effect on you and others, I believe it makes you more accepting of violence in our society.

I disagree as knowing what is real and what is entertainment is not difficult for normal people to discern. Awareness of forced sex and violence should not, in any way, make you wish to immitate or accept those actions. If that were true then all remaining native Americans would likely be long gone by now, due to the intense popularity of westerns.
 
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