My Sunday and temp has been between 105 and 112….the truth is I am pretty much over flipping summer…..how about you?
How many times have you heard someone say that all the violence problems we have these days can all lead back to all these damn video games? We have games about killing hookers and stealing cars, war of all colors and just pretty much anything that could have a violent content…..
In reality, can we really blame the games or is that just an excuse from whiners?
Claims linking violent video games to societal violence lack evidence, yet continue to inspire moral panic.
The tragic July 22 shooting in Munich has revived claims linking violent video games to societal violence. The latest to raise this specter was German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who claimed that violent video games “helped inspire” the attack. This episode follows a fairly familiar pattern: A politician or police officer discovers that the young male perpetrator of a horrible crime also happened to play violent video games (as almost all young males do), and links the two in a public statement. News media decides to treat clueless speculation as something near to fact, and the next turn of the violent video game moral panic is on.
In truth, there’s no evidence to connect violent video games to violence in society. Several studies, such as by psychologist Patrick Markey and economist Scott Cunningham, have linked the release of popular violent video games with immediate declines in societal violence. Correlation between the consumption of these games and societal reductions in youth violence were well established, but these newer studies suggest there may be some causal element to this.
Source: Stop Blaming Violent Video Games for Societal Violence | US News Opinion
Ant thoughts?
Please have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend…I know I will….see you guys tomorrow with more stuff.
Ride the metro trains in Tokyo or Osaka and you will see people of all ages, male and femaile reading Manga (comics) that contain the most blatant violence both physical and sexual. It is the birth place of violent computer games, yet Japan is about the safest country in the world.
Nice…my granddaughter brought this to my attention also….her point was the same as yours….thanx….chuq
This is still happening… I thought we got over this a few years ago?
Nope….they refuse to admit that it is society that breeds this the games are an outlet….
I believe that if people didn’t have an innate sense of rage then video games could not have been thought of, much less invented, in the first place.
It is up to all of us to decide how we reign in that beast.
I might be a little old fashioned but I did not have much TV watching in my home….as for horror movies,they were banned…..I remember one incident which kept me awake at night ..all because some ‘Mum’ had let my daughter watch a horror movie….her nightmares continued for a week..I was not impressed by sleepless nights.
However I did read her Brother Grimm (unexpurgated)…I did not want her being brought up on Hollywood Feel Good Fluff Fairy tales…well,some….you see life is not always about happy endings…
Roald Dahl was a firm favourite..
As for my son…..well nothing would disturb his make-up. The more gruesome the better….but not in my home….being somewhat of a sensitive nature ;(
My Tellie is for news and a few entertainment outlets…nit many….movies and shows are the most played…..my daughter also craves the scary crap…at least my granddaughter thinks she is sick….LOL
I have been up to no good….I am cancelling my TV license (BBC ) £140 approx per year with the rest of the campaigners…we have had enough of PROPAGANDA..mass cancellation FIRST September! wish us well..
See Ya In court… 🙁
You must pay a tax for TV? I think I saw that somewhere….
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Reblogging this, I will elaborate on this in an upcoming post.
Thanx ffor the visit and the re-blog…much appreciated….chuq