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Should We Blame Violence on The Kind of Videogames That We Let Our Children Play?
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You dont remember the body collection book of men killed by so and so.like a hunter?.I had that as a briefing from a teacher! He said if you can't kill,or are offended get off my fire base!
Video games don't turn people into serial killers. Millions of people play video games, laser tag, and paint ball combat games without turning into serial killers. What combat video games, laser tag, paint ball combat games, and hunting critters do is to teach people better combat skills. If someone who has spent hundreds of hours doing such things does go crazy for unrelated reasons, they will have the skills to potentially mete out considerable mayhem before being brought down.
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I remember laser tag! Man that was fun! Good times! :wink
The other side of this is that combat skills also enable a person to better defend their family. I talked to a man who had just graduated from the police academy. He thought he heard a noise in his house, so he grabbed his gun and cleared his house using the combat skills he was taught. Fortunately, no intruders were present. If there had been, they would not have gotten to his wife and children without a fight.
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I remember the summer of '69. Senseless, vindictive violence happened all over the place then, with no reprieve til now. It just didn't take the form of mass school shootings, we had Charles Manson and Son of Sam for that.
Evil is increasing and the Church should be surprised?
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Which is why I raise the point of, which freedoms do we want to forfeit? Some say the first amendment, some the second, some the fourth. I say none, and tend to agree with those saying we gave up too much post 911.
To keep the 1st, we have to allow some forms of entertainment we object to.
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To keep the 1st, we have to allow some forms of entertainment we object to.[/QUOTE]
Like what?
Like what?
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Like what?[/QUOTE]
Well, eventually it will be just about ANYTHING that others get their kicks from........ kids.... sheep..... whatever THEY say you have to accept them doing.
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Well, that depends on what they are. I'm pretty sure that you are allowed to eat pork and get a tattoo if you wish.
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Peter's "sheet dream" shows that was not really ever God's law, but rather man's addition to a concept.
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How would suggest one overwhelm their perp if they have a gun held to their head. Would you stay calm in such a situation?
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Violence brings thoughts of violence to an unstable mind that acts out what they see.
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That's a foolish question, seriously. School mass shooters aren't known for doing their deed by holding their gun to one person's head at a time. You paint a picture of people lining up, taking a number, and waiting their turn.
Almost as absurd is the self-defense training that gives people a false sense of security about being able to go one on one, bare-handed, against an armed assailant and winning. (While it may be possible, it is the most dire of circumstances and to be avoided at all costs, obviously)
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Have you ever been in a situation where someone has tried to take your life? I have and it is scary. It's easy to say what you would do until you face such a situation. Having Jesus is the end result if you are persecuted to death, but yet there is still a fear factor involved as it's the fear within us that cries out to Jesus for help.
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First person shooter games reward with points and all manner of awards depending on the game. I once heard of a game that had secret prizes for the higher degrees achieved, I think it was what was then the latest installment of Grand Theft Auto. Those secret prizes were links to adult sites with all sorts of mature content well beyond the age group for GTA's prescribed player age group.
Violent video games desensitize the mind to the graphic gore achieved by the players direct action. The subconscious records indiscriminately everything the senses process both visual and audio, as well as the sensory receptions and the emotions that are sparked. Then those somatic responses deposit into the soft tissue of the body. Muscle, sinew, and can be activated by trigger points on the skin.
When the subconscious records a kid playing first person shooter games for hours on end , the emotions involved release chemicals into the body ranging from flight or fight, to euphoria. As in, that reward for achieving so many kills, or advancing to another level in the game.
After awhile what would be horror at watching a highly graphic 3D image of someone's body blasting to bloody pieces becomes something to anticipate, enjoy, feel satisfied over, gratified, happy, any number of emotions. And, those are preceded by the players direct action in achieving that graphic visual at the "trigger".
What would naturally be something offensive and that would trigger flight or avoidance on sight, has now become something to pursue and advance at will in first person activity.
So yes, violent video games have a direct effect on impressionable minds. Wouldn't it be great if the news reported these shooters in these schools violent video game activity prior to their bad act? And this latest in Florida is the rarity. He didn't kill himself afterward. Nor was he shot dead by police.
They could ask about the game play but likely it would never be reported.
Often times the idea of first person shooter games directly contributing to desensitized emotions in violent teens, and they don't all have to be mass murderers of unarmed school mates, but can be bullies in school, or any other offensive individual who throws into violent acts over seemingly otherwise benign causes.
If video games aren't effective in altering personalities, maybe we should ask the military, like the branch of the armed forces that is the Army, why they use video games for recruiting. A whole list of Google results.