The video games have zero measurable effect. Kids in other developed countries play the exact same games. They don’t shoot up schools, or kill their sisters.
The problem is the guns. Period.
In fact there is ample research concluding that video games reduce empathy and increase meanness.
And there is a truly bizarre streak on the left that makes slippery-slope arguments for anything that can remotely be considered “speech,” including games where you get little squirts of dopamine for shooting people, that bears a unique resemblance to the bizarros on the right who make slippery-slope arguments for anything that can remotely be considered “firearms.”
When “freedom" is defined as “the right to be an asshole,” we become a society of assholes.
And “My rights over your dead body” is the ultimate in selfish cowardice.
To quote a former Google employee who has since gone dissident, “there are a thousand of us on the other side of your screen, whose job is to break down your self-regulation [ability to rationally control your own behavior].”
Anyone who wants to rationalize that , has no right to complain about The Regime.
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And there is a truly bizarre streak on the left that makes slippery-slope arguments for anything that can remotely be considered “speech,” including games where you get little squirts of dopamine for shooting people, that bears a unique resemblance to the bizarros on the right who make slippery-slope arguments for anything that can remotely be considered “firearms.”
I don't think I've ever seen a worse misuse of the them "slippery-slope argument". That's not even close to using it correctly. Like, how in the fuck does someone get the idea that "slippery-slope argument" means "loose definition"?
When “freedom" is defined as “the right to be an asshole,” we become a society of assholes
So that explains people like this guy, I guess?
Dunblane.
Remove the guns, no more school shootings: or anywhere else.
"DOOM IV" has a BBFC rating of '18': even on Nintendo Switch.
...oh and even harsh language? Section 5 of the Public Order Act is the 'Glory Kill' to your 'argument', little boy: and that's the police's legal BFG-9000 shoved in your gob, charged to beyond overload & the trigger pulled.
Can't have speech: without a mouth .
Malicious Communications laws. Your 'right' to be an asshole? Not Allowed. [/Brenda Leyland]
Funny thing is, I recently read in the news an article that, according to a recent unbiased study, video games in fact do NOT cause violent behavior.
And, trust me, I know. Like Doubting Thomas I consider myself a pacifist who abhors violence of almost any kind, yet I am a devout gamer. And yes, that includes the likes of Doom, Halo, Mass Effect, etc. But not Call of Duty, because fuck that crap. Anyway, you don't see me shooting up schools, do you? Even though my school days were pretty miserable and I played games even then.
When “freedom" is defined as “the right to be an asshole,” we become a society of assholes.
What? Are you saying people shouldn't be legally allowed to be assholes? Because if that was a law, you'd be under arrest right now.
Funny how nobody can ever link to this supposed "ample research" you claim exists; or, if they do, it turns out to be a heavily flawed & intentionally biased "study" (read: opinion-justifying survey with misleading questions, bad data, tiny sample sizes, and pre-drawn conclusions).
Second, that's not a slippery-slope argument.
Love that weird little conspiracy bit at the end. I fail to see how a company that runs a search engine, browser, and phone OS has any control over anyone's ability to control their behaviour - especially through video games, which they don't even MAKE. (NOTE: there is no source for that "dissident employee" quote at all, and that quote exists nowhere else on the internet. So I'm guessing G2geek just made it up whole-cloth.)
"In fact there is ample research concluding that video games reduce empathy and increase meanness."
Lie right off the bat.
Vide games are already regulated, you don`t get to ban them just as you are not gonna take the guns away from responsible, adult users who can pass both proficiency and psychiatric testing.
It's the culture surrounding gun ownership that's the real issue, along with a general disconnect from responsibility for one's actions and outright contempt for any thought of how it affects others around you. In Switzerland for example because of compulsory military service most of the citizens are armed and trained with military weapons. Most homes have an assault rifle tucked away. Thing is, the owners of those weapons know well enough that there is no sane reason they would whip out an assault rifle short of being called to active military service compared to the NRA's target crowd who honestly think it's an appropriate response to a purse snatcher on a busy street. Hell the NRA seems to think it's more socially appropriate to flash small arms in more situations than it would be to smile.
As for videogames that purported link to a loss of empathy is portrayed in a misleading manner. People who played competitive games, violent or otherwise, showed more self-centered tendencies after long periods while those who played primarily cooperative games, including violent ones, became more prosocial. Attempts to conflate violence with videogames also tends to ignore the pre-existing preference for such content. Violent, domineering people will seek media that caters to their desire for violence and the ability to exert dominance over others.
American culture takes competitive attitudes to places that confuse and scare the rest of us. Being steeped in that from birth might be a contributing factor to the culture surrounding guns... and some of the shit you hear in a Call of Duty voice chat.
Been playing biolent games since 1990s. Still not engaged in terrorism.
Others who shot up schools, committed terrorist acts were not gamers and some were motivated by holy books. Should we ban Bible and Qu'aran?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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