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thismeintiel on 25 January 2013
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SaviorX said:
thismeintiel said:
SaviorX said:
I agree 100%

You would be surprised how many gamers are man-children, and have no place having their opinion heard in political discourse.

If gamers did not have a lust for violence, they would not have made shooting games the largest genre of the last 10 years. They would not be in an uproar if Mortal Kombat replaced blood with sweat. They would not have weak forms of comedy that make "punching a dolphin in the vagina" actually funny.

As I get older, the majority of people who represent gaming and actively call themselves gamers repulse me and tarnish the medium. Give these guys some sunlight.

So, you're weak argument is that some gamers are douchebags?  Where's the data that proves that games made them this way?  And that it makes them go out and commit violent crimes?  I mean, using your argument, you would think we had millions of shootings each year, since FPSs sell tens of milions each year.

Hey, I gotta follow my state senator's choices.

Videogames dont make anything bad about children; neglect and abuse do, let's be clear.

But often times, these kids left alone are often playing videogames. Their ability to commit violent crimes is technically unrelated.

Ice cream sales go up in the summer, but so does the murder rate. Does ice cream make KILLERS NOW?

In your own response you proved yourself wrong, though.  "Videogames dont make anything bad about children; neglect and abuse do, let's be clear."  As for being left alone, it doesn't matter that they are playing video games.  They could be just as easily watching TV or movies, or destroying toys while imagining its people, which some do.  The point is, its not the stimuli that is causing the problem, but the environment.  As someone else pointed out, a child shouldn't be exposed to certain things, not because it makes them violent, but because it could give them nightmares and/or irrational fears.  However, in a normal and loving home, that child is almost certainly not going to become a mass murderer for seeing those images.  Now, a kid could grow up on nothing but Barney or Sesame Street, but if they come from an abusive/neglectful home, they could very well grow up to be criminals. 

Your ice cream comparison is ridiculous.  Just like it is ridiculous to conclude that violent crime has anything to do with video games, even though crime rates have gone down, while the industry has grown quite large.