| Vetteman94 said: When out of an entire group of people that play violent video games, and one of them kills a bunch of people and the difference is that person has a mental illness, the video games arent the issue. The mental illness is the issue, because it the the anomoly of the entire situation. |
I largely agree, but it's not a matter of whether or not video games make some sane person shoot people because, of course, they don't. It's more like, can a steady diet of interactive fantasy violence help lead to real violence in mentally troubled people? And it very well could, so we shouldn't dismiss the notion out of hand. But we don't know that conclusively at all, and I think that even if it does it's dwarfed as a contributing factor by untreated or improperly treated mental illness in general to the point that we shouldn't be rushing to "do something about it" like this guy suggests.
