U.S. Supreme Court Allows Video Games To Kill Our Children

[benji]

I think you're ignoring the power of symbols. The notion of something is equivalent to the thing itself. Guns instantly turn people into violent murders, thus we must ban kids using their fingers as guns or cutting them out of paper or why we have to destroy their toys. And arrest them for terrorist threats and so on. So that they know items are not allowed.

Same with evil thoughts like violence or sex. If these things are kept from the kids their essence will never be corrupted by the evil.

Mark David Chapman claimed he was inspired to shoot John Lennon after reading Catcher in the Rye.

Which is odd because it was J.D. Salinger who wrote the piece of trash not John Lennon.

The idea that our morality can be shaped and altered by video games is unproven

Breyer put 15 pages of studies that argue there is a connection as an appendix.

Stuff like this:
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/ ... lence.aspx
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19207695
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cg ... 108/5/1222

[ixcuincle]

We shouldn't stop at FPS games. No, we should ban sports games too.

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.ph ... n-shooters

However, a new study into the potentially negative effects of videogames has this week shifted focus away from the overtly violent Modern Warfares and Grand Theft Autos of the gaming world, instead preferring to warn against playing… sports games?

That’s according to Dr. Simon Goodson and Sarah Pearson of Huddersfield University in England, who believe conceding a goal during a game of videogame soccer causes a greater emotional surge in players because more gamers have a frame of reference with sporting activity as opposed to wielding a deadly projectile weapon.

The study was conducted by measuring the heart rates, respiration and brain activity of 40 randomly selected volunteers (both male and female), who were tasked with playing either a known violent videogame or a known soccer game on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console.

After a bout of focused gameplay, the study team’s results revealed that those immersed in first-person shooter action remained unmoved by on-screen deaths, while emotions often flared in those playing soccer.

“As participants reacted with more agitation during the football game, it seems the effects of violent video games have been misrepresented in the past,” commented Dr. Goodson regarding the findings.

[benji]

Considering what they do at real soccer games that's probably warranted.

[Patr1ck]

Considering the rate of actual goals in soccer games versus the amount of deaths in fps games, it isn't. Basketball would have been a better comparison, because in both basketball and fps games, you shoot to score.

[benji]

You're ignoring the correlation between the playing of a soccer game and the violence that occurs after or during one.

[x-uNdErRaTeD-z]

Aren't you simply saying "everyone should be better people"? Well, great, how do you do that? That's what I asked. What should be done?

I mean what if parents don't step up? If families continue to move towards single-parent and high-divorce rates? What if parents don't know what "the right ways" are and are incapable of helping their children?

How can you create more positive role models? How do you even define it? How do you "implement more religious places"?

"Everyone should be better" is a fantasy, not a solution.

Damn. I can't answer your questions. Because not everyone is going to be good or perfect. I fucking hate when you ask me questions it makes me think. Are you a professor in real life or a thinker of some sort? Off topic but benji, you really marvel a person like me.

[koberulz]

We might need to implement more religious places such as churches with schools or whatever to help show our children values and morals from their books. You might not have a religion but if your child can have a better behavior after attending these places, its worth it.

Because religion teaches such great morals.

Besides, if the only reason you're being a decent person is because you don't want to go to hell, then you're not really a very decent person, are you?

Are you a professor in real life or a thinker of some sort?

I love that 'being a thinker' is something special to you.

[x-uNdErRaTeD-z]

Yea because I can't think for shite. I have no logic what's so ever or common sense.