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even if you believe that we are the sum total of the media we see, each individual sees a huge, vast amount of media. pinning the blame on one game, or even one medium, such as video games, seems to me like blatantly trying to find something to finger.
moot brings up an interesting point. these people are suing sony for creating a game system which had a possibility of running violent games, which had the possibility of "training" people to kill, which had the possibility of causing something like this. we might as well have sued ben franklin for figuring out this whole electricity business.
(i am ignoring the fact that sony bought the title, just for now. it doesn't mean i'm not aware, i'm just making a point.)
the reason GTA was made was because there was a huge demand for it. the people that bought it spent a large sum of money for the privelidge to shoot police officers and start fires, etc. they knew what they were buying, and they expressed interest in it before the game was even made. so i hardly think it's fair to hold rockstar/sony/take-two responsible for training people who otherwise would never have thought of it.
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