How do you feel about Video game Violence?
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How do you feel about Video game Violence?
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By the government or by their parents?K__D wrote: ↑November 19th, 2018, 12:21 pm Should kids be limited to what games they play to prevent violence or are video games not the issue here and has taken the spotlight due to media hysteria? Should they be allowed to play recreationally as they please whether the video game is violent or not?
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If kids are not being corrupted by video games they're being corrupted by the TV, the internet, the news and the generally corrupt public conversation being conducted by "grownups" today. So many adults are, figuratively speaking, covered in mud themselves to the extent where it seems hypocritical to fuss over those in the process of accumulating their own mud in their own ways.
The dirt's coming either way. Smart parents will help their youngsters understand some of the oddities rather than rely on government censorship, which can be readily circumvented by tech savvy teens anyway.
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Videogames are so ubiquitous and varied that to single them out as a single entity doesn't make any sense.
Oh and by the way some videogames are clearly detremental influences. But probably not the ones which you are thinking of.
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They won the argument and I now let them shoot people in the face in video games. Am I a bad parent?
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The scaremongering around video games is no different than the scare mongering around video nasties.
The most damaging side of video games, currently, is the payment model. Many games are designed much in the same way that casinos are designed.
Even here though I wouldn't advocate bans. I would advocate education and support.
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Is that harm changed in countries with tighter control of guns or tighter control of video games.
You can draw an analogy between subversive literature, music, films and computer games.
You could draw an analogy between gambling and some computer games.
It is harder to draw an analogy between road traffic deaths and games though. Or drug smuggling and games.
Why guns? It is so random. Are you working under the assumption that games and guns are always 'bad'.
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I was actually not comparing video games and guns per se, rather noting that in the US both are ubiquitous and thus neither can be legislated out of existance, despite a minority's interest in doing one or both.Eduk wrote: ↑November 21st, 2018, 4:31 am What is the harm caused by games? And what is the harm caused by guns?
Is that harm changed in countries with tighter control of guns or tighter control of video games.
You can draw an analogy between subversive literature, music, films and computer games.
You could draw an analogy between gambling and some computer games.
It is harder to draw an analogy between road traffic deaths and games though. Or drug smuggling and games.
Why guns? It is so random. Are you working under the assumption that games and guns are always 'bad'.
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Video games would certainly be extremely difficult to ban. Indeed the world is full of examples of banned works being made even more popular by the ban.
Not sure about guns. Certainly there would be a great deal of resistance. And it would be far from straight forward. I think it might be achievable but that's pure conjecture on my part I don't really know enough to have a strong opinion.
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Children need to learn how they are expected to function when/if they grow up. All cultures have toys, games, songs, stories and sporting competitions through which the young learn the values and beliefs, the laws, the protocols of interaction, the class structure, the role they're being trained for and the methods of gaining status in their society.
All cultures have a standard set of wishful lies they tell the very young, followed eventually by exercises in how things really work.
Games are the transition from one to the other.
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From a more idealistic standpoint, it certainly makes me sad that as a society we invest so much economic and mental resources in to this particular spectrum of imagination. We don't want to experience killing and war in real life, so why allow children to imagine doing so for hours at a time? Why is there not a greater emphasis on creating compelling educational videogames that teach individuals how to perform surgery, or play musical instruments, or literary analysis? Why as a society settle for games that appeal only to the basest desires of our limbic system?
Also, I feel like it is important to consider the edge cases before declaring with certainty that violent video games are without harm. There's estimates as high as 1 percent of the population who will experience a psychotic disorder in their lifetime wherein they lose the ability to distinguish reality from mental fictions. By contrast, only 0.048% of airplane passengers flagged by the airport security have ever been arrested, with a far lower percentage of those arrests as credible attempts at terrorism. Yet most seem perfectly willing to subject the entire population of airport travellers to screening procedures for this relatively minute risk.
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