badgenome on 18 September 2013
| ArnoldRimmer said: I'm still looking for the part where they actually place the blame for this on video games. I can understand if gamers get angry at people who want to ban violent video games because they consider them responsible for some individual going on a killing spree. But I haven't seen any such quotation in this thread so far, they're just mentioning that he played such games a lot. There's indeed a significant pattern/correlation between young people going on a killing spree playing violent video games, but that doesn't mean violent video games are the cause for their killing sprees. Rather, both are just indications for other similar underlying problems. |
Well, there was this... but they were nice enough to phrase it as a question! (And it's the Mirror.)
I'd like to see the media for once be a bit introspective about whether or not putting so much emphasis on killers and their motives encourages more crazy or disgruntled people to do these things.
