violent video games = violent people?

[DJ_Weasel]

Just look at the serial killers. Ask them if they have played grand theft auto vice city,or syphon filter,counter strike or any other games that involve killing people. I bet they would say yes. Same with robbers. Ever since I saw Gone In 60 Seconds, I have always wanted to steal 50 cars in one night. Actually, me and my friends planned to toilet paper 50 houses in one night,lol. Movies and games I think both influence people to do things.

[deposition]

I cant tell if you are trying to be sarcastic or not.

[xObserveRx]

believe that Violent Media can cause violent tendencies if unchecked. It happens to stupid stupid children who cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction because their (#$%-for-brains parents dont know how to raise children because they are too busy being fucktards. So when their children commit violent acts the fucktards go:

Parent A: "Oh, gee, someone is dead now and it is all our fault because we failed to raise our children because be were too besu being fucktards"

Parent B: "Hey, why take the blame for our laziness and stupidity when we can blame violent media!"

Parent A: "OH! And we can sue them for millions!"

Parent B: "IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY! BLAME SOMEONE ELSE!"

Then they all hop in their SUV covered in "God Bless America" stickers that are partly torn because the whole american-pride fad died and they no longer wanted cheesy stickers on their 50,000 dollar SUV so they attempted to rip them off but it proved to be difficult so they gave up half way because doing things half assed is also the American way.

Damn, i love you American hating Americans! :P we need more of you on here, i'm tired of being the only person who says the country is going to shit. Come to Canada, you never see Canada hating Canadians, all you see is Canada hating Americans. LoL, we need some of you Americans to come to Canada, and be on the right side of these debates. Well not right side, but a different side. See if you'd be running your mouthes about issues like this in Canada, highly unlikely, but it'd be cool.

Too bad you guys never give that any thought, why? i don't know, i guess it might be that Americans believe Canada is a lesser country, if not, tell me why you'd never consider moving there, and if you gimme some BS weather reason, you're as stupid as parent A and parent B, and you don't need to talk anymore.

[Verruckter]

Anyone of you seen Bowling for Columbine? Well it explains why the americans are violent, wich is because they fear everything (muahhahaha i love being canadian...eh!). And many americans will say that it because USA has a violent past, but what about Germany? And others say its because of video games, but most of the violent games come from Japan. There are many reasons to this violence, and it's only because the people of USA are afraid (or is afraid...my english isnt so good). USA may be the most powerful country in the world (for now) but in 30 or 50 years, the present generation will be adult. And this generation, having grown in a wolrd of fear and violence, as well as a lack of education BY THIER OWN FAULT will result in a chaos!!

Sorry if you don't understand a thing of my post...

P.S. even tho i'm talking of a whole generation, it dosent mean EVERYBODY in that generation

[IronMonk]

w00t for canada! i say we all go the way of some countries that have massive violent penalties to anyone who does things wrong, in some places you get beat with a cane if you spit in public

[xObserveRx]

That's a little harsh i think, but yeah, i do fear what's gonna happen when all the baby boomers are gone. I 'm not thinking its going to be all out chaos, but it's gonna be a different world, that's for sure.

[DracIV]

Americans are violent because we just are. It is part of our culture. This BS is annoying me about Canada. None of the perfect image you guys are trying to show is true (I'm Canadian also). I say America should invade Canada to shut you guys up (jk).

Everything already is chaos and won't change anytime soon. While 85% of the population is busy keeping things together, us 15% are making things better and hopefully soon we will get enough power to really improve things. I laugh at thee, poor Canadian Targets: teeheeheeheeheeeehahahahamwahahahahahabwahahahahahehehehelol^^ (I couldn't figure out how I wanted to laugh)

[Verruckter]

just say "lol"...lol
Well Canada has less violence than USA thats for sure. I think 165 murders with Firearms are commited each YEAR in Canada, while 11,147 (approximately) Firearms murder are commited in USA.

[themanwithsauce]

Actually, canada is somewhat anti-violence when it comes to extreme violent gaems as of late. Soldier of Fortune 2 was banned from canada due to the fact that you could shoot peoples limbs off. And it sold a decent number here in the states so I think this says a little something about Canadians. And I too am Canadian in background(25%)

[stinkypoo]

well i play lots of driving games and i ACED my driving tests. If a driving game can help me do better at driving (kinda like practicing) then i think if ppl played a realstic shooting game they would want to try it out and be good at it (i dont think its a good thing when your good at killing people) so lets say i was playin grand theft auto and i killed some hooker and thought nothing of it. what if that were to happen in real life? not good. i do agree that some people are over the top about all this but im saying some games are influencial (did i spell that right) and some games are just games that have shooting like james bond or something, where you would never do that kind of shooting or reckless driving.

[jewpinthethird]

believe that Violent Media can cause violent tendencies if unchecked. It happens to stupid stupid children who cannot tell the difference between reality and fiction because their (#$%-for-brains parents dont know how to raise children because they are too busy being fucktards. So when their children commit violent acts the fucktards go:

Parent A: "Oh, gee, someone is dead now and it is all our fault because we failed to raise our children because be were too besu being fucktards"

Parent B: "Hey, why take the blame for our laziness and stupidity when we can blame violent media!"

Parent A: "OH! And we can sue them for millions!"

Parent B: "IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY! BLAME SOMEONE ELSE!"

Then they all hop in their SUV covered in "God Bless America" stickers that are partly torn because the whole american-pride fad died and they no longer wanted cheesy stickers on their 50,000 dollar SUV so they attempted to rip them off but it proved to be difficult so they gave up half way because doing things half assed is also the American way.

Damn, i love you American hating Americans! :P we need more of you on here, i'm tired of being the only person who says the country is going to (#$%. Come to Canada, you never see Canada hating Canadians, all you see is Canada hating Americans. LoL, we need some of you Americans to come to Canada, and be on the right side of these debates. Well not right side, but a different side. See if you'd be running your mouthes about issues like this in Canada, highly unlikely, but it'd be cool.

Too bad you guys never give that any thought, why? i don't know, i guess it might be that Americans believe Canada is a lesser country, if not, tell me why you'd never consider moving there, and if you gimme some BS weather reason, you're as stupid as parent A and parent B, and you don't need to talk anymore.

I love Canada...but I dont think I will ever live there do to the fact that my choice of career is more of a SoCal thing...or Japan.

[Fuman86]

Actually there have been studies done on this sort of thing--they show that people who are exposed to this sort of thing more (killing, fighting, whatever) become less sensitive to it. Using someone else's GTA idea--if you're used to killing hookers on the street in GTA and do it over and over and over, you care less and less until you eventually get to the point where actually seeing something like that won't phase you as much as it would most "normal" people. Same with fighting games--people get to a point where kicking someone's a*s is just..natural. Like beating someone up for something trivial..like a disagreement.
At the same time...
the strength of people's ideals also plays a huge part in these things. It's exactly why the put the "mature" label on games--despite this research, if you're smart enough not to expose yourself to the stuff all the time and take it with a grain of salt, for lack of a better saying, you will tend to be Ok. This isn't to say that you can just assume you're "mature enough" and play whatever you want. Some people can see this stuff and it has absolutely no bearing on their behavior. Others do. It's a matter of maturity and strength of values. Some people just aren't ready for it. Those are the murderers,etc that people are talking about. These games are meant for the people "Mature" enough to be able to handle it without it altering their perception.

[ringluver]

I had to write a friggin essay on this topic at least 2 pages over 500 words





in other words it sucked

[alainbryden]

Wow, you must be in grade 8. For most of us, a 4000 word essay is standard.

[GuidoHunter]

I got to write two english essays on video games and violence. It was totally sweet. I even let my friend jack one of my papers, modify it, and turn it in for his class which then sent it off to Joe Lieberman. I though that was kinda funny.

--Guido

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