CNN claims GTA IV is training kids to kill

[TheRealMafoo]

fkusumot said:

TheRealMafoo said:

In his example, during WWII, the military had condition it's solders to be better killing machines then the average population. If his theory is true, WWII vets should of had a higher murder rate in the US when the war was over. That was not the case either.

Sorry, but I think it's a very bad assessment.

 Are you sure? In the USA soldiers have a higher rate of divorce. They also have a higher incidence of domestic violence. The two may be correlated. I don't know. How would you assess that?

 I am not sure how to say this without pissing some people off, but here it goes.

First off, I want to say I worked for the military for 12 years, and loved it. So I am not anti-military.

The military personal is not a average slice of the american population. The poor make up a larger percentage then the rich. Same with education levels, IQ levels, and a few others. If you were to take the average demographic of the military, and then look at the domestic violence and divorce rates across that demographic, you will find that they are the same.

A better way to say what I meant with my first post, is you are not training someone to be a killer, you are just condoning them to be better at it if they were a killer. Why they are a killer in the first place is the problem, not a training tool.