badgenome on 20 September 2013
| Vetteman94 said: This is complete bullshit. He even acknowledges that there are millions of cases of people who play violent video games but dismisses it because they come from good household environments, have no mental issues etc. But the minute someone has issues outside of those, its a contributing factor, really? |
Yes, really. It can't be ruled out at this point as a contributing factor.
I mean, I think this guy is a douche for saying that society (i.e., gubmint) should do all it can to stop such a travesty from ever happening again even after admitting that millions of people play such games without issue. These incidents are rare enough that we don't need to lose all sense of perspective and have the national freakout every goddamn time, and at a certain point the prescribed cure becomes worse than the disease. But at the same time it's certainly possible that a person with a clinical mental illness could be more likely to commit real acts of violence after playing violent games.
