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Originally posted by warrrreagl
I'm not going to fall into the trap of "but you said every single person".....
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Forget the "everyone" part, I was asking if you were saying that video games cause kids to go out and shoot people.
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
...until one is prepared to admit that there is something desensitizing and debilitating about the games one loves to play and the movies one loves to watch - and until one is willing to discuss what impact these and other forms of brainless packaged sociopathology may have on other people who are not as superhuman as oneself in the ability to transcend such influences - we are at an impasse.
It doesn't seem particularly illuminating to say exceedingly simple things like, "the parents aren't doing their job" as if it was the end of the discussion....
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Your right video games, movies and other media can be desensitizing, but it can also have the exact opposite effect. But being desensitized doesn't make people walk out and shoot other people. Yeah, I’m used to seeing drugs and I’m used to seeing people shot, that however doesn't mean that I'm going to take drugs or shoot some else. The fact is parents aren't doing their job. It is still the parents/legal guardian's
job to teach their children right and wrong. Once you have children your main focus should be to teach them morals and values. And to add to what warrrreagl said, kids have to be taught more than just what is right and what is wrong. If simple understanding of right and wrong was all it took then there wouldn't be
any crime. Children have to be taught that there are repercussions for there actions, they have to taught respect for their fellow man, respect for life in general, and they have to be taught the difference between video games and reality. They need to made to understand that life doesn't have a restart button or a continue option. Again, they need to learn to value things like human life. I love violent games from 1st person shooters to fighting games, I think there fun, does that make me a violent person or want to go kill someone? Not in the slightest because I was raised to know about values and morals. Sadly some of the kids today aren't raised to know the difference or aren't raised by parents at all but by the television.