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the 40 year statistics are misleading.
Don't forget that there were many many violent acts not recorded- domestic violence, racist hate crimes, rapes, etc. An awful lot was overlooked because people "minded their own business" or because the "law enforcement" was at times a law unto itself. so to say that violent assaults went up....who knows?? The reporting of it and prosectuion of it did- hey maybe something the media had a positive role in??
posted by
FactorFiction
on April 8, 2005 at 3:11 PM
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Uniddentified Hacker,
These statistics go over my head. I see your point that there's no definite connection between violent video games and teen violence. But there is still desensitization towards human life I see and hear in conversations going on around me almost every day, just a disconnect in feeling towards humanity. I think it's a lot more complex and that video games are more a symptom than a cause. Adolescence is a typically full of confusion and pain, especially when parents are not real and present, so the video games are probably a distraction, an outlset, and incidents like those at Red Bluff, MN, have more to do with the kid's pain over his family situation and video games are an easy target, rather than looking at the real issues like whether he was sexually or physically abused or abandoned.
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Blanche.
on April 7, 2005 at 7:57 PM
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roofpig
Not as simple, and much more painful. Who wants to admit that they did a craptastic job of raising their kid?
posted by
Unidentified_Hacker
on April 7, 2005 at 9:27 AM
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Kids need fantasy violence as an outlet. I'm truly worried about my nephew, because his parents won't even let him play with water guns. I think repressing the need to play-act is just causing an internal build-up, and that's going to be even worse in the end.
I grew up playing Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, etc. and I never act out in violence towards anyone. Why? Because my parents made very clear the distinction between imagination and reality. What's the point I'm making? PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY THEIR KIDS GROW UP. Plain and simple.
Unfortunately, not as simple as blaming video games.
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roofpig
on April 7, 2005 at 9:21 AM
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