...Video Game Violence..., Alabama Killings Caused By GTA?? Options

[antix10_kos]

Basis: Alabama Killings Caused By Grand Theft Auto?

Here's some more "evidence" that can and should be used in this debate:
Negative/Against:
video game censoring
cop killing for kids

Positive/For:
video games help sick kids
do video games prime your mind for violence?
in defense of video games

There's no denying that many of the most popular video games are violent, but can a game really make children behave differently in the real world? Does repetitively playing a violent video game influence a child's actions more than watching a violent movie or TV show? What do you think?

---This excerpt was taken from reader's digest.

So, what do all of you think?

I know that there are many gamers on this board, not just video gamers, but computer gamers, RPG fans and online gamers as well. Many of the changes proposed by those "if we can't control it, then censor it or ban it!" government stiffs would effect not only video games, but computer games and online RPG/ gaming communities could and will be effected as well....is this what a free society does to topics and forms of entainment it doesn't agree with? How come parenting of kids only comes into play after they blow someone's head off at school or kill 3 cops? Why doesn't it matter when their kid(s) are spending 16 hours a day holed up in their rooms, clicking away at screens and killing on-screen beings with great and bloody gusto?

I'm 19, I've played computer RPGs since I was 15 and I've been playing Xbox for over a year. I enjoy violent games as much the next person, the only difference is that I'm old enough to purchase the violent games I enjoy for myself. What kind of idiotic parents would buy those violent games for their 10 year old?? It just makes me cringe...I enjoy playling Manhunt and Fable, but I don't think it'd be a good idea to let my 8 year old niece play such games....

Conclusion: I think that a) parents need to stop blaming game developers and platform inventors for making violent games and b) they should take a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask "what the hell is going on with my family?". Stop blaming and start changing....don't take away your fellow citizens freedoms because you're too lazy/ too unaware to teach your kids that video games aren't real.

[*RockizLife*]

I agree with your conclusion. If you aren't mature enough to play the game, don't play it. And it's partly the parents fault for not teaching their kids what's right from wrong. I think a lot of that is just trying to find an answer for the killings. The parents wont take responsibility, so they blame it on the games when really it's their own fault. They live with the child. They should know if they can mentally handle violent games. They can take the game away. It's their fault, not the developers.

[medic]

This falls in the same line of the whole gansta rap thread.

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91312

There will always be people that take things to the extreme, it does not matter if its a Video Game or a song. If a game should be censored so that these things don’t happen, then the songs, movies, and TV shows should fall in the same place.

[Paradox of Life]

I made a Grand Theft Auto thread:

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...opic=66004&st=0

Use the search button please.

[medic]

O well, I just copied what I said to it... LOL

[Paradox of Life]

O well, I just copied what I said to it... LOL

OMG LOL! That thread was made in July and my thread was made in February.

[antix10_kos]

I made a Grand Theft Auto thread:

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...opic=66004&st=0

Use the search button please.

I did use the search button, "video game violence" were my search words.

At any rate, my thread was not specifically about the Alabama killings, it was "do you think that video games make people/ children more violent...." and "what should a free society do instead of censorship of topics that they don't agree with?"...I just think that the Alabama Killings make a great example of what society/government reacts to video game violence....

Let's think for a moment, that perhaps a new thread might have been in order since the other began in Feburary, has 70 replies and Reader's Digest just released an issue with an article about the killings in it. The media is starting to cover the issue of video game violence and the ratings system for video games since the government is taking it into consideration.

I also posted links to outside news sources, many of them, hoping to promote a more "debate-friendly" discussion instead of the ususal "I think it's bad", "I think it's good", "I agree", and "Someone already posted this but..." replies.

PS- Reply here for a fresh discussion of topics. If any mods object to my posting of this topic, then close or delete it. I'm tired of this "let's keep the threads alive forever", on the debate boards. I think that there should be a 10 page or 30 reply limit on the debate boards since most people don't read anything but the first and last posts on the topic anyway.

[Paradox of Life]

^ Well, you could've posted the news and brought the old thread back to life instead of making another one. But apparently, no one is replying anyway, so it doesn't really matter.