Do Violent Video Games Play A Role In Todays Culture Poll.

[twyacht]

Watch Video.  These are all played on modern platform games available today.

Make Your Own Call.

[kmitch200]

Not unless you are totally devoid of knowing right from wrong, reality vs fantasy - which would totally qualify you for Congress.

[MikeBjerum]

The video games today are the same platform (sometimes the same actual tool) law enforcement and military uses to desensitize participants into believing it is ok to kill, and they also use them to teach tactics.  Do the play a role, combined with our society's loss of direction in understanding how to deal with stress and disappointment, you bet they do!

[jaybet]

I've had almost every gaming system that has come out, from Intellivision to PS3. Never killed anyone. I play COD Black Ops II every chance I get because I'm competing with myself...using reflexes, smarts, and my BRAIN in high speed, high tension circumstances. Normally the people I'm playing against are much better, quicker, and many have much better equipment and internet access, so you have to be quick to be effective.

When I play those games I'm competing - not killing. Shooting bad guys, shooting baskets, kicking footballs, throwing an uppercut, knight to queens' rook 4....it's a game.

I wish everyone would stop trying to take "crazy" and "shitty parenting" and blame it on something else.

[lhprop1]

Yes Jay, there are millions of kids (and adults) who play these games and never have an urge to kill someone.  However, there's an unprecedented number of kids on antidepressants and other drugs, prescribed or not, that can really make the difference.  Whether it's due to shitty parenting, lazy doctoring, or both is up for debate.

The fact remains that when these kids take Ritalin, Xanax, or whatever else, their minds are altered.  Take a kid who has some of these desires deep down inside, give them the drugs, desensitize them with the games and you've got your next school shooter.   

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

Yes Jay, there are millions of kids (and adults) who play these games and never have an urge to kill someone.  However, there's an unprecedented number of kids on antidepressants and other drugs, prescribed or not, that can really make the difference.  Whether it's due to shitty parenting, lazy doctoring, or both is up for debate.

The fact remains that when these kids take Ritalin, Xanax, or whatever else, their minds are altered.  Take a kid who has some of these desires deep down inside, give them the drugs, desensitize them with the games and you've got your next school shooter.   

Gosh.  Almost sounds like it could be a plan.

[brushmore]

In my opinion the breakdown of the family has much more to do with society's ills than anything else.

Violent video games I guess could influence an already troubled person.  But trying to pass laws trying to ban/restrict them aren't gong to solve anything.

[kmitch200]

But trying to pass laws trying to ban/restrict them aren't gong to solve anything.

Where have I heard this sentiment before??

[JdePietro]

I would like to point out that the poll is a fixed question. "Can" as used in that sentence is an absolute. All things are possible, some things are more plausible. I voted yes because I am sure that you "can" with enough research put together a link between the two.

That said, I think you have to ask yourself why you seek a one size fit all answer to a complex social problem. There are those in this world that feel that morality is bestowed upon us from generation to generation through ancient rituals and laws that are suppose to govern our conduct. Science has concluded that at the age of five most children begin to rationalize. If you were to ask a sample of children ages five to eight questions about morality they would almost all come to the conclusion that hurting others is wrong, breaking rules that do not harm others are more flexible. When you break our understanding of morality down to its basic forms you are left with some variables. Morality is rationalized by each person based on their experiences, morality is governed by the traditions we are brought up with and morality is directly related to the amount of knowledge that person has obtained about the world around them.

To learn more about this I highly recommend the book  "The Righteous Mind" by; Johnathan Haidt.

When you have an understanding about the origin of morality you can begin to discuss other factors that play into the reasoning behind the aggression.

From a young age we cart our children off to a place that most hate. The buildings are massive catacombs full of hostile environments and small class rooms. There the child is criticized for every assignment they complete and forced to take greater amounts of work home to monopolize every minute of their lives. Forced to obey even the most ridiculous authority, there is no room for questioning the curriculum and even if you begin to understand a subject you are screamed at to move along to the next subject at breakneck speed because time is a stringent element of manipulation. You have no rights, no amendments, you will be cussed at and worse. The administration does not care for you and the moment you fail to curtail your childish twitching you are forced to swallow pill after pill of mind altering substance proven in every modernized society to be extremely harmful for growth and they ultimately force the user to become dependent on substances for the rest of their life to balance the chemicals in their brains.

I highly recommend that you seek out, "The War on Kids."

 

There will never be a one word answer to the problems that dog the most advanced and complex species to ever roam the planet. We have created an existence for ourselves that can create either the worst of monsters or at best the worst of people.   




 

[tombogan03884]

This whole thread disgusts me.
What is so f**king hard to understand about the fact that some people are just f*cking mental and may be set off by reading "Rebbecca of Sunny Brook Farm".
All you people posting about "gaming platforms being used in training" are as full of sh!t as a Christmas Turkey.
They used to use BOOKS to train from, Fairbairn, and Applegate . Those were the days when a 10 year old could mail order an M 1 carbine and there weren't mass shootings.
I'm sick to death of hearing a bunch of pseudo intellectuals go on, who are no better than the anti's in their determination to avoid blaming f*cked up individuals.