Theory

[RemyC]

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/419019

I've always found the, "blame video games" stance, to be a scapegoat, so that the politicians can look like they are being active in a search to end violence.

Opinions?

[Sejez]

I don't really think there is much to discuss on this subject, they are simply blaming the new thing for being the source of all evil. It has been going on for ages and it works because many are so concerned with being "safe" that they fear anything that they haven't seen before, that and they are too lazy to actually do some research to even try to get their facts straight.

[JoshF]

This topic would make a good gamefaqs question of the day.

[icycalm]

I don't really think there is much to discuss on this subject

That's because you are not thinking.

In other news: scientists are stupid.

Hey, within the past couple weeks I've seen an article reference where researchers made a violent and "non-violent" version of a mod (like, one you kill the guys, the other you just tag them and they zoom away) and they concluded what makes video games satisfying is a sense of empowerment, not really the violence per se.

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=19260
www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/documents/2 ... y_PSPB.pdf

As if "violence" is not merely the most direct, effective expression of empowerment. In other news, multiple stab wounds may shorten monkeys' lives:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/s ... nds_may_be

[icycalm]

A just-released research report claims that playing violent video games makes players "comfortably numb" to the pain and suffering of others.

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/02/19/ ... ing-others

Nietzsche would have been proud.

[icycalm]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/a ... ideo_games

[icycalm]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/s ... _to_reduce?

[icycalm]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/h ... e_consists

The Onion basically has got this subject covered.