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DevilsAdvocate
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New guy here. Been lurking for awhile. I figured this would be the best way to get the widest audience amongst those of you that I respect. Well, you know this one was coming. An interview on MSNBC.com about the school shooter in Minnesota blaming.... Yeah, video games. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7288381/Well, discuss as appropriate, but it seems like everytime something violent happens, it's because video games gave the perpetrator the model or motivation. -Devil's Advocate |
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Tebonas
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Video game violence? I'm all for it.
I'm also for violence against people blaming everything on the fad of the year instead of parents not actually parenting their children.
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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About time...I called this last week when I first saw the little creep on TV.
Oh yeah, it's a stupid god damn crock of stinking horseshit, too. Instead of blamning a simple game, blame the parents; either they fucked up in their parenting methods, or they have bad genes. Either way, things like this never have, are, or will be, the fault of a game.
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"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Merusk
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What parents? In this case, Mom's in the crazy-house, Dad's killed himself a few years back and Grandpa's an old cop with a girlfriend. The kid was doomed. I'd rather blame his friends who came out after this and said, "Oh yeah, he mentioned shooting up the school a few times. We didn't think he'd do it.. he was just getting picked on a lot."
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Murgos
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I thought they were trying to blame this one on Nazi's?
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Paelos
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If you pick up the average video game, you're going to see sequences that look just like the animation this boy produced. It's not something that we look at and say, “Oh, I've never seen that before.” You will see it a million times if you pick up any of the common video games available to teenagers today. I never knew Super Monkey Ball was teaching kids to kill. Oh noes! |
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HaemishM
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Wow, I hope that asshead doesn't get paid to do interviews like that, or study the school shootings either. Because he's basically said that everything a normal kid does and goes through, a school shooter goes through only the school shooter takes it further into violence.
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How insightful of him to have figured that out, what with only many years of psychological schooling. I bet he was firstest in this class.
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He's looking for a link to tie these kids together, and he's looked at all the symptoms without taking one look at the disease. Fucking tool.
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
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Nice redundance Haemish.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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