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In reply to the discussion: You will have to pry my Video Games out of my cold.. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Quick, what is the death rate from violent crime in Japan and Korea? You think our tittles are violent, you have not lived.
People have been looking for this connection since Columbine. My god, Harris and Kleebold played Battletech...oh my...
In fact, it goes much farther back, in the 1950s the exact same claims made today about video games were made about Comics. The senate even held hearings and considered an outright ban. Why comics were approved soon after by a censorship board.
You know why games are rated? 1999.
It's easy to blame a fringe element in the society, gamers and comic geek are fringe, and try to ban that, instead of looking at why they mostly reflect the rest of the media and provide a not too kind mirror to society.
People have been looking for the holy grail that video games are Dangerous. After now thirty years they have not...research and money has been poured into this. Hell, the senate, just like comics, has even held hearings.
You know, instead of chasing after a red herring, as ridiculous as evolution and gays cause this, we should focus on what does actually work.
But you say people don't want to do anything...literally millions have been poured into this wild goose chase.