Enough of this stupidity…ppl that does these things, will have done them without the video games…I have played every damn violent game made almost…and i have no inclination to kill ppl. It is the person’s fault for being a coward with their life, it is their parents faults…it is not a video games fault.

Now quit trying to blame it on games.

Common sense ftw.

How many crimes have been commited like this with connection to video games I can count them on my fucking hand.

Now, how many crimes have been commited with connection to drugs for instance

Or, how many people have been killed because of drink driving

How about plain old insanity

How about War

Conclusion: go cry about some other more serious factors than video games Jack Thompson, Attorney Faggot.

And just a few weeks ago a few children that live in my block (in a pretty good neighbourhood with “normal” working people) were playing with firecrackers all the long live day. At the age of about 4 nonetheless. With a lighter. Those same children were also playing in an open window on the first floor and always, always sit in front of the TV at 7 in the morning… Who shall we blame?

And about APA and causality and such: science doesn’t prove anything, science correlates and tries to show (based on theories) some relation between X and Y. In no way can science ever prove (by doing empirical studies) a hard and fast relationship between two variables. And if playing videogames “makes” someone aggressive then, by anology, so do movies, Marilyn Manson, Donald Duck and the Bible as they all “advocate” violence.

Two things I agree on though: 1) don’t sell M-rated games to kids and 2) playing a video game when you are already feeling lonely/misunderstood might just catalyze that feeling because when you turn of the computer, cold harsh reality kicks in a bit harder I guess.

Anyway, rant off. I get pretty piqued when I read these kind of things.

Worrying over the content of a video game is a colossal waste of time anyway. If somebody wants something bad enough they will find a way to obtain it–that is the beauty of today’s world. Also, there are things aired on basic cable that are far more offensive and potentially mentally corrosive than “Mature” video games.

People can try to hide and avoid the real world all they want but in the end the only thing they are avoiding is the truth and they are ultimately hurting themselves. To keep children sheltered and in a “bubble” is to effectively lie to them. When they leave your household to pursue their own lives they will have to cope and deal with the real world–that is, a world full of corruption and immoral practices. Just because you raise your children as if these things don’t exist doesn’t protect them from these forces when they are on their own.

Parents are to prepare their children for life on their own. This is not to say that I would advocate purchasing “Mature” games or other “illicit” material for children just for the sake of introducing children to corruption and immorality,; however, I am saying that it is a very weak justification for preventing your child from playing a game that they want to. These wants and urges will be present in your children when they leave your nest because avoidance is NOT a means of closure–sheltering your children from simply not letting them obtain the “Mature” material they want is not going to make them not want it, it is only going to prolong their want which generally leads to an increase in interest.

Knowledge is power and true knowledge is experience.

Because ultra-conservative religionists like you Jack Thompson, believe the story is real, and often the story is violent (from the Bible don’t you remember all the smiting God does?).

No Video Game actually believes video game story lines and characters or their motiviations are real.

Hundreds of milliions of people have died to idealogues like you Jack.

Whether it be the Christians during the Inquisition period of Europe, the radical muslims, the Communists, the Facists, or others who take their idealogies seriously.

Maybe we should ban Religious Scriptures from being sold in the stores.

Shall I go on?

People either have it in them to kill or they don’t. Video games, as mentioned before, are yet another thing to blame shit on. You might want to blame it on the chemicals in the big mac he ate, or the caffine in the soda he drank, or perhaps the newspaper he was reading.

Was he sitting at his computer when he shot himself? No.

Chances are he had some time between gaming and the moment he pulled the trigger. There might have been a few things in that time thatdistracted his mind from gaming…you think?

You’re probably right, it’s all the video games fault.

Go back to chasing ambulences and sueing doctors and stuff.

Your comrades are screwing more of the middle and lower class than any video game ever has or ever will.

Maybe u can drop some lawsuits on the gamemakers, run the cost of the games up, suck more from the middle and lower class.

The possiblities are endless

bah what a great profession ur in, u probly need a couple weeks off at ur 2nd or 3rd home.