Comments | eleneta: for something like a second, I was healed, and my heart was at ease

eleneta

for something like a second, I was healed, and my heart was at ease

Dec 08, 2010 14:58

This is honest-to-goodness the last finals period I'm ever really going to have. That's SO WEIRD ( Read more... )

thesis, paper, final, scheduling

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golgibody December 9 2010, 00:12:28 UTC

So, what's your actual opinion on the influence of video games?

eleneta December 9 2010, 00:41:43 UTC

it's so small as to be almost negligible, and the freakouts about Columbine, etc, add fuel to the fire so that people do freak out about it. I don't think it's completely negligible, but I do think it's confounded with about 18 other things and separating it out is close to, if not completely, impossible.

did I really spell negligible right? awesome)

golgibody December 9 2010, 03:44:47 UTC

Hmm. That's an interesting view. Do you think maybe violent behavior in children is an outcome of certain forces in our society, and violent video games are more of a symptom of those forces than a cause? I don't know where I stand on it, but that's probably close to what I think the answer might be.

And yes. You did.

eleneta December 9 2010, 18:26:47 UTC

I think that violence in children comes from a lot of things... "certain forces" being really vague, but yes. I'm actually more worried about elementary school 'Mean Girls' than bullies beating people up in the playground, and I think it's really easy to peg the media for both of those. I don't think that violent video games, by themselves, can cause people to completely change their personalities ( ... )