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Quote by: Sonart  .
Head to Head -- Let's see.,. one game industry expert who says pretty much exactly what I did -- |
Jack Thompson is hardly a "game industry expert." He's a medical malpractice lawyer that has never played a single game in his entire life, and has devoted his entire life to destroying the game industry. I thought it may help to have two biased opinions, one in one direction and the other in the opposite. There others were more for entertainment value than anything, especially the one about the New Life guy.
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Quote by: Sonart . --"But the terrifying thing? 11 year olds. Yup - if anyone is going to bring down our game world, it's you little bastards.
My dad said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen. His face was red. Seem like an overkill reaction? nah - you see, i was on xbox live and some little kid called me a ni**er jew who should be raped, burned, etc. he was ranting. (forgive the language - but if you've played halo 2 on live, you've heard worse). You all have seen it happen. a little kid who doesn't have his parents around decides to be big man and yell at everyone obscenities that make all of us embarrassed to be gamers."--
Yeah, that sounds encouraging. Those kids should be real pillars of civility when they get older.  |
Yeah, the 11 yo's on Live are annoying, but it really doesn't mean anything. Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Asshole, it's a scientifically proven fact, I mean look at some of the people on here (present company excluded, of course
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Penny Arcade! - Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)
Some better links to support my position:
JEFFREY H GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » Researcher Finds Scant Evidence Linking Violent Games With Aggressive Behavior - yes, I know it's from gamepolitics.com, but it's about a research paper by a Ph.D faculty member at Texas A&M International University’s Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Blaming the dark side of gaming Video Games Do Not Cause Violence - Commentary
Japan has far more violence in games and really all media than the US, Canada is equal, and nearly every country in the world watches the same movies, and the same or similar TV shows with the same "gun culture" as the US without the same issues.
Like I said, it's cultural, but I think it has little to do with violence in the media. It seems to have more to do with the fact that we are a melting pot of multiple cultures, with everything from the urban hip-hop culture to the religious fundamentalists, people clash and violence happens. Thankfully crime rates have been decreasing, and will hopefully continue to do so, but I don't think that restricting individual liberty is the proper way to encourage it.