Posted on 09/23/2013 12:45:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If the Devil had his own bible, it would probably take the form of a computer game. It would be sly and witty, enjoyable and slick. It would start with small, almost funny misdeeds.
It would offer the player the joys of money, successful violence and easy, responsibility-free sex. There would be drugs which didn’t fry your brain or burn holes in your nose.
You would be made to feel brave, while not actually needing to be. None of your pleasures would be paid for in coin, pain or grief.
Everyone else in the game would be disposable and forgettable. And it would contain one big lie. You would come out at the end happy and unharmed, and wanting more.
As I understand it, this is roughly what happens in the new, much-praised Grand Theft Auto V, now being played by thousands of 14-year-old boys in bedrooms near you.
Officially it’s for those aged 18 and over, but nobody takes that seriously in modern, child-hating Britain. If you haven’t got it, you’re not cool.
The shops were ready for the rush with great stacks of it. Parents who refuse to buy it for their sons can expect ballistic rage, stamping and sulking. Perhaps it will turn out to be a human right.
Would anyone care to say that this doesn’t matter?
It’s a curious coincidence that Aaron Alexis, the man who massacred 12 people in Washington DC last week, liked to play such games for hours on end (Call Of Duty was apparently his favourite).
As usual, the liberal media are more interested in the fact that he had guns than in what was in his head.....
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Perhaps it’s better that people do this in a virtual world rather than the real one.
Whatever is not of faith is sin.
He wasn’t describing a computer game he was describing our leftist pop-culture
There’s an army of mcrazy people out there. They are, largely, immune to the laws created by sane people. Short of locking them up, there aren’t a lot of options. disarming yourself in their presence is probably one of the worst plans however.
Nobody ever plays NetPanzer any more.
It’s such a sad, sad, sad game that needs a new version so bad
It’s hard for me to believe that people who play this game and others like it are not convicted somewhere deep inside, about how horrible that kind of imagining is. “oh be careful little eyes what you see.....” etc. I guess we’ve lost our consciences; no need laws, only need to follow the inner law that is there; used to be anyways.
Video games are no more to blame for mass murders than the NRA is.
Millions of people play ‘violent’ games, few will kill anyone for real and I would think almost all of those that do would kill anyway because their mental illness or gang affiliation is not determined by how long they play Grand Theft Auto.
If TV was so influential on behavior, then there would be sitcoms breaking out on the streets.
Millions of people read the Koran...
>> Whatever is not of faith is sin.
Well, while not being finite, Faith doesn’t necessarily account for the routine aspects of life like... farting for example. I know... juvenile, but just making a point.
>> It’s a curious coincidence that Aaron Alexis, the man who massacred 12 people in Washington DC last week,
“A curious coincidence..”
To Hell with reason.
I have heard stories of clerks trying to warn parents about this one and the parents are buying it anyway.
So you’re suggesting that it doesn’t hurt—but instead it helps—if people play thousands of hours of nasty violent games and watch hundreds of hours of nasty violent movies?
All the research showing those who watch more of such violence are more violent is actually upside down?
Guess it depends on how old the kids are. I doubt I’d give it to an 8 year old but by the time they are 14 or 15 you’ve either done your job or you haven’t.
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