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| TheBeast 356th Post
 
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|  "Yes, but...."
, posted Wed 15 May 07:32
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AND FAILED MISERABLY!!!
Video games should be blamed for the violence of people these days, but that is only to a certain extent, and it is not the main reason. It is like wielding a knife - you can cut food with it, and kill people with it. I always believe in the importance of education and parents, who are the main parties to curb violence.
No, I strongly disagree, video games should not be blamed AT ALL for violence. Why do I say this? Parents should look and advise every game a young child buys.
IT has a good rating system with what is bad on the back of the video game.
AND if it has guns/blood/etc it is Rated M which is 17 and up or something.....13 is certinlly not older then 17 so the parents should be blamed with all of this.
I totally agree with you. Parents should do their parts and educate the kids, and not seizing every opportunity of violence cases to blame video games.But not blaming video games AT ALL for the violence these days is something I can't agree to. For commercial purposes, video games to a certain extent did sensatioalize violence in my humble opinion. Hacking off people's head and kicking it like a soccer ball is not violent? Ripping the skins and hearts of defeated opponents like Mortal Kombat is not violent? Hmmmmmm....
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| OmegaDog
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| "Er, the coffee case was justified..." , posted Wed 15 May 11:36
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on a side note, the guy/girl that sued McDonald's ... shouldn't he/she have sued the greasy 14-year old that nuked his/her coffee instead?
*heats coffee until the glass itself begins to melt*
"here you go, sir. you can keep the pot"
It was an old woman who didn't need coffee anyway and should have known that coffee is hot. Now McDonalds and many places have "Caution: HOT" on their cups to lessen legal disputes.
Actually, the case was justified; Juke Joint Jebezel has it closer. What happened was that the coffee was heated WAY higher than it was supposed to be -- and when the coffee spilled on the woman, it was actually hot enough to cause heavy burns. (Coffee, though hot, ain't exactly supposed to do that.) Maybe the reward amount was pretty large (I forget if that's what the judges ruled, or that's what McDonald's settled for) -- but at least there was a good reason to find McDonalds at fault.
However, the mainstream media got a hold of it and twisted it to say, [voice style="cheesy radio talk show host"] "McDonalds gets sued because a woman spills coffee on herself? WHAT is the WORLD COMING to?" [/voice] And, as such, the case becomes infamous.
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| TheBeast 379th Post
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| "Re(3):They tried to blame video games...." , posted Sun 19 May 18:11
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blaming video games is nonsense.
japan has the highest percentage of people playing video games, yet one of the lowest lowest lowest crime rates in the world (even lower if you are talking about violent crime).
explain that please.
people who want to blame games, tv, media, etc., are silly.
Well, Japan has hentail anime and comic, which is also as "sinful" in some ways...
My stand is that the materials in the media that people are exposed to DO play a part in their behaviour. They can't be blamed, yes, but to a certain extent they are to be held responsible for some of the disturbing violence that some media sensationalize. No doubt many players can distinguish reality and video games, but we can never tell for sure if the violence have ultimately sunk into our inner selves, until we are given the situation as the game portrays, in real life.
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| DKW
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| "Re(1):They tried to blame video games...." , posted Sun 19 May 19:34
Re. McDonalds scalding coffee case: http://www.atla.org/CJFacts/other/mcd.pdf covers it quite nicely. Always remember that anytime you hear of an award that sounds crazy on its face, but you don't know the details, it means that there's more to the story.
Re. video games: Let me put it this way. If there were a conclusive, proven, direct link between violent video games and real life violence, I'd have no trouble at all banning or at least heavily regulating them. Same deal with guns. They kill. That's their primary purpose. Countless people are killed by their own family members by guns every year. All of this is indisputable, so I have no trouble at all with gun control. If video games or any other form of entertainment had the same effect, it too should be under tight control.
Here's the thing, though...it's not happening.
I've watched countless players play absolute splatterfests like The House of The Dead 2 and Evil Night. By far the majority of them were children. No ill effects. No effects of any other kind. What. So. Ever. One father held up a little boy (he couldn't have been more than five) to give him a better view of the carnage he was inflicting. Both left the arcade none the worse for wear.
I've played more blood-soaked games than I can count. To this day, I have found the completely gratuitous dirty words in Yellow Black And Blues on Beatmania Gotta Mix more disturbing than all those games combined.
And let's be honest; as long as Grand Theft Auto 3 and its ilk make money, they ain't goin' nowhere. These dumb watchdog groups should focus on an easier target...say, puzzle games. Not a lot of gamers are going to miss Puzzle Bobble after it's gone...and I'm tellin' ya, a few rounds with THAT can inspire far more violent feelings than an entire year's worth of GTA3.
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