Well it doesn't make for good ratings or readership.
When you hear about how many people died in Iraq you take notice, when you hear about them helping to build communitys no one bats an eye.
You hear about 20 youths coming together to help their neighborhood and make it a better place, might get coverage on page 20 of the local paper, but you have one youth kill another and that's front page material across the state.
It is rather sad that good news takes a backseat to bad news, but it's what get's people watching/reading and in the end that's all they care about.
It would be nice to see more posotive story's about people getting it on GP but those are very few and far between.
Maybe its the past generation(our current politicians) are trying to make our generation look bad by making us seem like the violent, unruly type when it was their generation that was the violent ones. Hmmmm, makes you wonder. That and fishing for votes.
Even the FBI charts say that violent crime in youths has declined and at its lowest point in 40 years i believe and get this the drops seemed to have happaned at the release of the playstation and the GTA games(coincidence, i think not.). Everytime one comes out, crime seems to decrease in youths, not increase as the politiicians make it out to be
This guy is spot on. But going off on a tangent here i personally feel that there seems to be an extremely anti-youth setiment today and that anyone under 18 is being infantized rather then being treated like the adults in training that they really are. If your under 18 it's like you have no mind of your own and can't think for yourself and violent video games are going to turn you into a killer or physiopath. It's also starting to happen to young adults (ages 18 to 24) to, they are being treated in the media more like children then adults. I remember during Katrina they had a thing about missing children and there were like 19 and 20 year olds they were talking about. Also while your considered under the law an adult at 18 and can vote at that age you can't drink till your 21 in the states. Anyways i getting off topic so i'll stop my tangent here. These are just my personal feelings. Yet again nice editorial and absolutly true.
The reason for this, I believe, is because of an always-aging, technophobic generation. In the past 20 years, the way of the world has changed so vastly from how it was, with computers and the internet opening up global lines of uncensored communication that goes so far beyond what the parents of yesteryear were taught
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There are no studies anywhere that provide a causal link between video games and violence. Only a correlation that violent people have been found to play violent games. That's it.
And Jack's big logical fallacy...boffo97July 3 2006, 11:06:35 UTC
Correlation does not imply causation.
I know you know this, but just for the elucidation of others, if A and B correlate, you have not proven A causes B. They may happen coincidentally, or B may in fact cause A.
Here, people who are violent already probably just prefer violent entertainment in all forms that it comes in, including games. That doesn't mean games turned them violent, nor does it mean everyone who plays them is violent.
Re: And Jack's big logical fallacy...pahsonsJuly 3 2006, 14:08:50 UTC
Okay. Just so I can have some links/ studies to show others, what studies have been done to show that video games do not cause violent tendencies? My coworkers are older and beleive whatever Limbaugh says and others of his kind, and prefer solid evidence on my part.
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When you hear about how many people died in Iraq you take notice, when you hear about them helping to build communitys no one bats an eye.
You hear about 20 youths coming together to help their neighborhood and make it a better place, might get coverage on page 20 of the local paper, but you have one youth kill another and that's front page material across the state.
It is rather sad that good news takes a backseat to bad news, but it's what get's people watching/reading and in the end that's all they care about.
It would be nice to see more posotive story's about people getting it on GP but those are very few and far between.
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However, there are still those damn Emo kids that we still have to get rid of
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Even the FBI charts say that violent crime in youths has declined and at its lowest point in 40 years i believe and get this the drops seemed to have happaned at the release of the playstation and the GTA games(coincidence, i think not.). Everytime one comes out, crime seems to decrease in youths, not increase as the politiicians make it out to be
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Yet again nice editorial and absolutly true.
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Seriously, are there studies done in other countries that can link video games to violence?
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I know you know this, but just for the elucidation of others, if A and B correlate, you have not proven A causes B. They may happen coincidentally, or B may in fact cause A.
Here, people who are violent already probably just prefer violent entertainment in all forms that it comes in, including games. That doesn't mean games turned them violent, nor does it mean everyone who plays them is violent.
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