Here I go, expressing my views again. Today, I read this article. I was mad. Almost as mad as the person that wrote the article. Yet another suicide, related to video games, blamed on the creators.
There are so many other stories like this. A kid hanging himself because he couldn't play his Wii, now a kid jumping off a building... And these are blamed on the creators of the games?
A somewhat similar occurrence is seen in mass shootings. The Columbine shootings, the teenager in Germany... Blamed on video games.
Ever heard of Jack Thompson? The lawyer who will blame whatever he can on video games? Sad, sad stuff.
Here's the truth. The kid that jumped off the building didn't do it because of something in the game... He did it because his dad wouldn't let him play it anymore. The same with the kid and the Wii.
The Columbine and German teenager are different stories. Sure, the game could have taught them how to shoot a gun, but you learn the same thing in Boy Scouts. Are we going to start blaming them for random deaths too? I hope not.
3 comments:
I'm going to have to agree with you on this one, buddy. When I was a kid (a looooong time ago), we used to play cops and robbers. I even had a very real-looking toy gun. A snubnose. It was so cool. We shot each other all the time.
One of the things that keeps being brought up by those that oppose these games, is that it trivializes death. Makes it not so real. Well, trust me. If that trivialized death, then shooting your best friend with a toy gun, watching them fall down dead, then getting back up again certainly does as well!
So, yeah, I agree with you. First person shooter games shouldn't make you decide to go out and shoot people any more than my playing Trauma Center makes me decide to go out and operate on the next person I see.
Thank you.
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