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Honeycombe8

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23. You may have grown up healthy not eating vegetables, too. But in order to be sure

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:43 PM

Dec 2012

you'll grow up healthy, it's probably best to eat vegetables.

Just because you grew up healthy doesn't mean others will.

The studies are numerous and fairly conclusive. There is a strong predictive reliability to violent behavior in kids who participated in violent video games. You can Google that. There are a number of studies on it. Doesn't mean a kid will become a murderer. But one thing is certain - there is no harm in NOT playing violent video games.

BTW, a # of countries have banned them. Australia had a mass killing problem. It addressed assault weapons and made many violent video games age 18 and over, and banned outright the more violent ones (like Mortal Kombat - can't bring them into the country). Their method of handling the problem seems to have worked.

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You will have to pry my Video Games out of my cold.. [View all] HipChick Dec 2012 OP

Ha! nt ZombieHorde Dec 2012 #1

I'm with ya. TDale313 Dec 2012 #2

double negative Motown_Johnny Dec 2012 #3

+1! BarackTheVote Dec 2012 #4

Amen! white_wolf Dec 2012 #5

Here's the debunking of that myth nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #6

And here Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #7

Read the PBS link nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #11

I read the pbs link Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #17

Well, proof is in the pudding nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #27

right Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #40

Well, you are correct. earthside Dec 2012 #42

Wow very well stated Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #44

Thanks. earthside Dec 2012 #46

You are an adult, aren't you? If you want to play Doom and Mortal Kombat, Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #8

We have a rating system for that. white_wolf Dec 2012 #12

You may have grown up healthy not eating vegetables, too. But in order to be sure Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #23

That's not excatly accurate. white_wolf Dec 2012 #28

Actually we have poured millions of dollars in research nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #30

You do know the current version of doom is rated M nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #13

I will say this the game industry is very good at self regulating. white_wolf Dec 2012 #16

I have to show ID and trust me nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #20

I got carded when I bought Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition Friday. TheMightyFavog Dec 2012 #33

You kid you!!!! nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #34

Columbine killer Eric Harris actually created some levels for Doom... PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #52

Most people who played the original Doom did Posteritatis Dec 2012 #58

Your post implies he worked for ID software. white_wolf Dec 2012 #59

I didn't imply he worked for the company that made Doom, as you note PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #62

What about the recent football player who killed his girlfriend and himself? white_wolf Dec 2012 #66

He also played Battletech and. nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #63

would be really hard WooWooWoo Dec 2012 #31

Nice one. white_wolf Dec 2012 #32

I am impressed that you figured out how to post to the internet from 1993 cemaphonic Dec 2012 #48

How about duck hunt? snooper2 Dec 2012 #50

I haven't been able to go back to them. Barack_America Dec 2012 #9

So you're saying you are a mass people killer. MrSlayer Dec 2012 #10

I am right there with you... Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #14

I,I,I,I,I, Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #15

So we should support censorship based on your suspicion. white_wolf Dec 2012 #21

Censorship No Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #22

Except the vast majority aren't killing and none are killing because of games. white_wolf Dec 2012 #37

You should, seriously I mean it, go check minecraft nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #38

'I love violent entertainment' ....wow spanone Dec 2012 #25

You will have to pry my Steam account from my cold dead 18 tentacled body. Initech Dec 2012 #18

A-fucking-men. backscatter712 Dec 2012 #19

If you Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #24

Your concern is noted. backscatter712 Dec 2012 #35

oh Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #36

What a bland world you live in. GLaDOS: Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at Katashi_itto Dec 2012 #39

bland world? Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #41

You go hiking? But there is proof that some people die on hiking trips. white_wolf Dec 2012 #43

Oh I am not anti gaming Livluvgrow Dec 2012 #45

A fellow who is so certain of things! Good for you! Katashi_itto Dec 2012 #49

You are a mass murderer waiting to happen .... oldhippie Dec 2012 #26

You can say it on the internet if it's not true (nt) Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #47

*Holds Vintage Atari Joystick aloft* TheMightyFavog Dec 2012 #29

I kill zombies hollysmom Dec 2012 #51

My beautiful and brilliant college educated certified social worker daughter DainBramaged Dec 2012 #53

I play CoD every night after work WilmywoodNCparalegal Dec 2012 #54

Funny, I have maybe 100 video games… none involve killing people. You can either KittyWampus Dec 2012 #55

I'm a big boy, and can thus walk and chew gum at the same time. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #60

Odd. I play shooter games, and yet I'm a hippie pacifist who can't stand actual guns. Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #65

K&R Jamastiene Dec 2012 #56

I'm just gonna note how gamer-y Canada is and how murder-y it isn't. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #57

I like video games too Shankapotomus Dec 2012 #61

If someone had killed 20 kids with a copy of Halo 4, I wouldn't be here defending it Warren DeMontague Dec 2012 #64

I'm a gamer from the 80's bwood Dec 2012 #67

Yet your state has a higher death rate from fire arms nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #68