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[Liquideye]

I wrote an essay about this about year ago and long story short: It is very depending on the persons mental strength. For example some people can blow off some steam by shooting people in GTA so it can actually be very therapeutic. And again... Very depending on persons mental strength.

(My opinion(Got 4/6 from essay))

Edited by Liquideye, 03 April 2012 - 05:08 pm.

[benj]

I wrote an essay about this about year ago and long story short: It is very depending on the persons mental strength. For example some people can blow off some steam by shooting people in GTA so it can actually be very therapeutic. And again... Very depending on persons mental strength.

(My opinion(Got 4/6 from essay))

Don't suppose you have a copy of that in English? Would be very interested to read something that isn't biased towards either side.

[Rabar69]

I wrote an essay about this about year ago and long story short: It is very depending on the persons mental strength. For example some people can blow off some steam by shooting people in GTA so it can actually be very therapeutic. And again... Very depending on persons mental strength.

(My opinion(Got 4/6 from essay))

You make a very interesting point Liquid I always find games to be therapeutic and usually play a genre of game that's near the same mood I feel at that present moment When im bored i engross myself in strategy and when im angry jump straight into Gore, FPS, destruction etc haha!!

[Liquideye]

You make a very interesting point Liquid I always find games to be therapeutic and usually play a genre of game that's near the same mood I feel at that present moment When im bored i engross myself in strategy and when im angry jump straight into Gore, FPS, destruction etc haha!!

When about to RAGE play RAGE/Bulletstorm

[Rabar69]

Haha!! Yea!!

[Liquideye]

Don't suppose you have a copy of that in English? Would be very interested to read something that isn't biased towards either side.

Aguess i could if can find it... too bad i don't have proper archive for my schoolworks they are usually all in same pile in bottom of this bookshelf i have. Ill try to find it but no promises. :/

[Lycan]

It is basically bad statistics.... millions upon millions of people play violent games, and watch violent movies. The odd few who commit crimes and blame the exposure of violent media for being the cause of their crimes are anomalies, but make good headlines. News companies need headlines, and they'll jump onto such a story. Percentage wise it cannot be at all high.

Therefore we see headlines such as 'violent games is linked to violent behaviour etc.' when in reality, it's such a small sample of the whole that the research concerns, so it's not worth bothering with.

[Bibidiboo]

It is basically bad statistics.... millions upon millions of people play violent games, and watch violent movies. The odd few who commit crimes and blame the exposure of violent media for being the cause of their crimes are anomalies, but make good headlines. News companies need headlines, and they'll jump onto such a story. Percentage wise it cannot be at all high.

Therefore we see headlines such as 'violent games is linked to violent behaviour etc.' when in reality, it's such a small sample of the whole that the research concerns, so it's not worth bothering with.

Actually, that is not bad statistics. It's a classic and i mean classic fallacy.

1. Person A and B commited murder.
2. Person A and B played violent computer games.
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3. Person A and B played violent games which lead to their crime.

Classic logical fallacy, also known as bullshit in a pretty package.

What you're saying is that IF that fallacy made sense, then it would still be irrelevant. Which is true, but the fallacy is bs in the 1st place

Edited by Bibidiboo, 04 April 2012 - 07:51 pm.

[Darkademic]

Correlation does not equal causation.

[elyan]

Word.

[Lycan]

lol ... how to follow up from that?

Basically, the number of people who actually commit crimes under the influence of violent media, compared to the people who are exposed to violent media is far too low.

Remember the surge of reports from that "Manhunt" game ages ago? I was quite young back then, but still remember the 'fear' that the media put in all of us... my parents were going on about it for ages...

The story: http://news.bbc.co.u...ire/3936597.stm
It's reaction: http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/3936237.stm

[Reel]

I suppose this debate will bloom again after the trial of Anders Behring Breivik.

Today they focused on him playing the "violent" PC game World of Warcraft and he learned to handle a gun from CoD.

[Jobenson]

I suppose this debate will bloom again after the trial of Anders Behring Breivik.

Today they focused on him playing the "violent" PC game World of Warcraft and he learned to handle a gun from CoD.

Hah, people..... I certainly can't handle a gun even though I have played CoD and many other FPS. I have actually tried. Didn't do well.

EDIT: Like I could actually shoot at anyone or anything.

Edited by Jobenson, 19 April 2012 - 06:32 pm.

[Reel]

Exactly. As an army vet I laughed a lot when I read that.

Also it's a lot easier to fire a gun and aiming when you know that no one will be able to shoot back.