| Kasz216 said: I asked if you were joking because the confounding variable in what you said was extremely obvious. Also, as for videogames not being that expensive... again are you kidding? Videogames are extremely expensive. Espiecally in third world countries where the consoles cost 2-3 times what they'd cost in USD despite salaries being 3-5 times later. You can't piracy your way through that. Which is why videogame consumption is so low in poor nations. As for violence and decreasing crime rates.... again that's far to simple a correltion, ignoring actual reason violent crime is down. (Abortions if you believe outliers.) The same exact thing can be said with guns.
As for the last part... I didn't say videogames caused american culture to be more violent. It sure as hell is part of the culture of violence though. You'd be ignorant to think otherwise. |
I did not say it was not a part of the culture of violence i was just saying that it does nothing to create the culture of violence. You dont see cultures of violence developing in countries around violent video games as they became/become more increasingly violent because they simply dont have that kind of influence.
Japan for example has yearly shootings in the single digits, SINGLE DIGITS and they consume large amounts of violent video games just like America which has tens of thousands of shootings every year, it is not violent video games making people shoot other people, its people wanting to shoot other people having no trouble what so ever arming themselves to the teeth to do so.
From my own personal experiences, which i am aware are not representative of society as a whole, while spending time around gamers and people into sports it was clear to me who displayed more violent tendancies.
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