Comments on: Yes, Video Games Are to Blame http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/ Chronicling Internet Culture, One Bit at a Time Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Rodriguez http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-644 David Rodriguez Tue, 22 May 2007 20:54:45 +0000 http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-644 Look I'm 19 and I've been playing video games since I was 4. You have to realize that the media does have an impact on everything we do in our daily lives. It's our ability to discern what we should and should not do that prevents us from reenacting the violence that we see in it. Some people lack that moral judgment and shit ensues. Thanks for commenting! :cool: Look I’m 19 and I’ve been playing video games since I was 4. You have to realize that the media does have an impact on everything we do in our daily lives. It’s our ability to discern what we should and should not do that prevents us from reenacting the violence that we see in it. Some people lack that moral judgment and shit ensues.

Thanks for commenting! :cool:

]]> By: shahrika parmer http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-643 shahrika parmer Tue, 22 May 2007 20:10:39 +0000 http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-643 look am 15 and i been playing violent video games since i was 10 and you dont see me tyring to kill people because i seen it in a game. i have played silent hill 1-3, reident evil 1-4, god of war 2, true crime streets of LA and sooo much more and you dont see me shooting and satbing people now do u? look am 15 and i been playing violent video games since i was 10 and you dont see me tyring to kill people because i seen it in a game. i have played silent hill 1-3, reident evil 1-4, god of war 2, true crime streets of LA and sooo much more and you dont see me shooting and satbing people now do u?

]]> By: David Rodriguez http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-525 David Rodriguez Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:00:18 +0000 http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-525 People that are violent and even those that aren't love video games because they get to express themselves in ways that they would be forbidden to in real life. Video games do help to sanitize violence. It's to the player to remember that it's immoral to do these violent actions in real life. Some people lose sight of that. We all choose our actions. Ultimately nothing material or environmental makes us do anything that we choose to. It's all about how we internalize the messages around us and resemble them in real life. People that are violent and even those that aren’t love video games because they get to express themselves in ways that they would be forbidden to in real life. Video games do help to sanitize violence. It’s to the player to remember that it’s immoral to do these violent actions in real life. Some people lose sight of that.

We all choose our actions. Ultimately nothing material or environmental makes us do anything that we choose to. It’s all about how we internalize the messages around us and resemble them in real life.

]]> By: Aeze http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-524 Aeze Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:48:55 +0000 http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/2007/04/16/yes-video-games-are-to-blame/#comment-524 But clearly they aren't; you and many others don't seem to understand the difference between causation and correlation. Yes shootings/violence and video games can be connected, but have you ever thought that maybe violent people are prone to playing violent video games? And on the other side, I don't recall Andrew Kehoe or Charles Whitman playing video games... Now what I can agree with you on is that I'm sure definitely made his killing more effective - that part is obvious. But clearly they aren’t; you and many others don’t seem to understand the difference between causation and correlation.
Yes shootings/violence and video games can be connected, but have you ever thought that maybe violent people are prone to playing violent video games?

And on the other side, I don’t recall Andrew Kehoe or Charles Whitman playing video games…

Now what I can agree with you on is that I’m sure definitely made his killing more effective - that part is obvious.

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