“Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence”
Authors Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano offer incontrovertible evidence, much of it based on recent major scientific studies and empirical research, that movies, TV, and video games are not just conditioning children to be violent—and unaware of the consequences of that violence—but are teaching the very mechanics of killing.
http://killology.com/book_stop_summary.htm
I’ll ‘controvert’ it.
Several of us beat this to death the other night. Here’s the real ‘incontrovertible’ fact.
Video games have existed since the 70s. First Person Shooters since the early 90s. Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world, including a sizable contingent RIGHT HERE ON FR play them.
Where are all the dead bodies?
Where are the literally millions of bodies that Grossman’s thesis predicts?
WHY are MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of long time gamers not suddenly snapping and blasting people like a bad Vietnam flashback movie?
Each and every one of you know gamers. Do you think those people are closet killers? If you think this idea is correct, then what in God’s name is wrong with you associating and exposing your family to these potential psychopaths?
Did you go kill anyone after playing cowboys and indians as a kid? You played that with real people. Your real friend played real dead and you pretended in your mind to really blow him into a thousand pieces across thee yard.
Gee Real friend vs. some collection of pixels on a screen. I wonder which would be more psychologically damaging...
And that is how stupid this is.
If society has reached the point we have to bubblewrap kids rather than teach the difference between right and wrong, good and evil then lets all just stop breathing right now.
Want to put blame? Blame parents for not explaining to their kid that games are not real, guns kill and HOW TO USE ONE.
Now if as a parent you choose to bubblewrap your kid, then don’t be surprised when they cannot properly deal with reality and make bad decisions. Same goes for ‘anything goes’ types that refuse to teach consequence.
But everyone thinking to ban games, do not be shocked when your own ‘safe’ little thing hits some lib’s ban list. There will be no one to help you.