Arresting people for playing Video Games?
I was going to post this in the Video Game section. But I think this story is more broader than just games:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1969920,00.html
Do you find this fair? Extreme? Pointless?
Here in America we have Hilary with the same negative opinion on Video games. But it worries me that if this happens in Germany. Why wouldn't it happen in the US.
Oh, well...
*plays Gears of War*
Re: Arresting people for playing Video Games?
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
I was going to post this in the Video Game section. But I think this story is more broader than just games:http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1969920,00.html
Do you find this fair? Extreme? Pointless?
Here in America we have Hilary with the same negative opinion on Video games. But it worries me that if this happens in Germany. Why wouldn't it happen in the US.
Oh, well...
*plays Gears of War*
I don't givva f*ck.....Im still gonna play my Mortal Kombat, God of War, and my other uber violent games
Re: Arresting people for playing Video Games?
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Here in America we have Hilary with the same negative opinion on Video games.
hilary thinks people who play violent video games should be arrested?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-clinton-game_x.htm
just to clear that up, she has only been outspoken of keeping violent games away from children.
Originally posted by Soleran
Video games really represent the moral decay of our country's youth, time to face reality. Germany is bringing it's "A" game here!
Moral decay? That's assuming that people cannot distinguish between shooting a person made of pixels and shooting a live person. I really think most people (99.9...%) can.
"Bobby killed all those people because of those violent video-games"
Sure , I mean 80% of the planets population have played a violent video-game at one point or another so why don't we blame it all on the video games.
"Billy ate his family because he played pac-man"
"Little johhny destroyed an entire planet because of asteroids"
Instead of the idiots banning what is a 'POSSIBILITY' they should at least TRY to enforce actual friggin censorship rules. You see a 11 year old walk out with a GTA game you grab that little snot and damn well make sure you take the game off him.
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarfAbsolute ****ing bollocks. Video Games don't encourage violence, it does the opposite. That's like saying masturbation leads to sex, which it doesn't.
I was going to post this in the Video Game section. But I think this story is more broader than just games:http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1969920,00.html
Do you find this fair? Extreme? Pointless?
Here in America we have Hilary with the same negative opinion on Video games. But it worries me that if this happens in Germany. Why wouldn't it happen in the US.
Oh, well...
*plays Gears of War*
It doesn't stop people from having sex either...
The same thing happened to TV once it came out, people tried to destroy that too and blamed for everything and it has done a lot of good things and bad things, but we all agree that TV isn't responsible for killing people. It's just that old people don't play games then they see things like this happen see video games and stop thinking.
Originally posted by grey fox
"Bobby killed all those people because of those violent video-games"Sure , I mean 80% of the planets population have played a violent video-game at one point or another so why don't we blame it all on the video games.
"Billy ate his family because he played pac-man"
"Little johhny destroyed an entire planet because of asteroids"
Instead of the idiots banning what is a 'POSSIBILITY' they should at least TRY to enforce actual friggin censorship rules. You see a 11 year old walk out with a GTA game you grab that little snot and damn well make sure you take the game off him.
I was thinking more along the lines of Missile Command, don't let the kids play that cities will fall off the map!
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
I was going to post this in the Video Game section. But I think this story is more broader than just games:http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1969920,00.html
Do you find this fair? Extreme? Pointless?
Here in America we have Hilary with the same negative opinion on Video games. But it worries me that if this happens in Germany. Why wouldn't it happen in the US.
Oh, well...
*plays Gears of War*
Once i got to the part that said 'counter strike' i just laughed... counter strike, as fun as it is, is nowhere near being the goriest or most violent game...
f*cktards...
Originally posted by lord xyz
Absolute ****ing bollocks. Video Games don't encourage violence, it does the opposite. That's like saying masturbation leads to sex, which it doesn't.
That said, video games are not to blame. Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
Originally posted by Nellinator
Wow you should probably do a little bit of research before you say something as uninformed as that. There is not one study showing a decrease in the amount of violence and many showing an increase in violence because of video games. Since I don't feel like finding a really good and credible report I'll just link this one:
Video Game ViolenceThat said, video games are not to blame. Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
it only encourages violence in-game... if you play grand theft auto, you're bound to commit violent acts, it doesnt make you prone to violence in the real world though...