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Originally posted by Nachimir
I'm almost 100% certain that none of this conditioning actually supplies anyone with a motive to kill. It may increase their capacity to; it may also increase existing pathological desires, but I do not believe it creates the desire to kill or maim.
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Bingo. Amplifying something that is already there is hardly the video games problem. The fact is, the person's issues were already present.
Show me a well done study that shows that video games (or violent media in general for that matter) make people who would otherwise not commit violent crimes do so, and then I will stop sticking up for the industry. Problem is there are no such studies, because violent games/media do not have that effect.