Posted on 01/04/2013 5:43:51 PM PST by Katechon
Asteroids....
Movies don’t have anything do to with training to be a killer.
IIRC, there was an arcade game of that period that generated a bit of a stir. It was called "Death Race".
http://johnjayresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/databit2012_06.pdf
It’s not just demographics - the rate of arrests for murder by perpetrators aged 15-17 dropped by 66% from 1993 to 2000, and the rate for perps aged 18-25 dropped by 40%; both rates have slowly continued to decline since.
Given that the introduction and growing popularity of, realistic looking FPS games with splattering blood EXACTLY matches the steep decline in the murder rate by people under 25, wouldn’t you agree there’s a BETTER case to be made that FPS games PREVENT murder, rather than cause it?
And keep in mind that for men under 25, right now, large amounts of FPS gaming is universal- that is, today, literally EVERY boy/young adult from the ages of 10 to 25 plays a lot of violent, bloody FPS games.
So are you going to ever address the now several posters who have lifetines of FPS games and no real world kills? If not, why not?
I agree. My cats hate each other and they came from the same litter.
My brothers and I shot each other with bb guns. We had rules and are crack shots. Used heavy cordouroy jackets and football helmets.
Then when paintball came out we went almost every weekend for a. Couple of years.
I got a smoking paintball setup for my birthday two years ago and soon as my shoulder gets better it’s game on, lime Donkey Kong.
Don't forget the 19th century.
Oh... don't forget the 100 years war...
And the 1630s... What a mess of people killing people.
No video games then, either.
/johnny
Sounds like he's promoting these FPS games. They would have shortened the war.
Ahemsa is not a natural human response to anything. It’s an aberration that takes years to learn. Survival in the face of danger is inherent.
I love that game! though I might go deaf from turning the stereo up so loud.
“Second, those FPS games are military techniques applied to transform a normal being into a brainless killer, a sociopath.”
Ummm....no. Either you’re born a sociopath or you’re not.
Now you're presenting someone's opinion as fact, and we are not only supposed to take you seriously, we are supposed to, on a conservative website, just put aside that whole "limited government power thing.
Unbelievable.
What I want to know now is why Katcheon wants to cause more people to be murdered by banning First Person Shooters.
A fact based on what? Its bull hockey. As someone else pointed out, millions of people play FPS yet 99.9999999% never even feel like killing in real life.
A fact based on what? Its bull hockey. As someone else pointed out, millions of people play FPS yet 99.9999999% never even feel like killing in real life.
Cops, soldiers, and cooks. That's the 3 groups mostly in trouble on or around every military base in the world.
I speak from experience.
/johnny
Id guess its because a person advocating a liberal idea is a liberal.
Because nothing about his posts is conservative. But it does follow the liberal desire for death and disruption.
While there's a big genetic component, the best way to create a sociopath is horrific, continuous child abuse at a young age.
And there's also a pattern of a lot of serial killers having had a severe head injury when they were young, as well.
Does this same guy believe Mario Karts causes traffic accidents?
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