[quote]Originally posted by Sowulo:
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When I was a kid (50's and 60's) we all played 'Cops and Robbers'; 'Cowboys and Indians'; and 'Army'. All of our games were about violence, we dug pits for booby traps in the woods and set out blackberry cane snares, etc. Things haven't changed, things aren't worse, we've just changed our views about what's acceptible and pay a lot more attention to the things we deem socially unacceptable.....We would all do well to just quit worrying so much and especially quit pointing fingers and playing the blame game on parents and teachers. When you were little, was it possible for your parents to know everything you did? Of course not! We never did anything bad but we sure made the effort to keep things from our parents.....</strong><hr></blockquote>


Ditto.


I had a rotten childhood and played every violent game, saw every violent movie and I am quite fine (well mostly). I have not killed, raped or maimed anyone. People do the things they do because they are stupid, insane, double y chromes, or the biggest one - they actually made the decision to do something wrong and violent themselves outside influences be damned. I've seen plenty of neanderthals do lots of stupid things and in the end everything they did was up to them and they made a choice to do something wrong/violent.

Video games are just another way for lousy politicians to get a few extra votes in the elections. People just eat up anything that they can point a finger at, truth be damned. Its the same thing with drugs. The drug didn't make anyone rob, or harm anyone, the person made the decision to do that. Politicians just harp on the end result and scapegoat a substance and people as always eat up anything that they can blame, wag a finger at and let them say - see - it was the fault of that thing not you, that thing made you do it. It’s the devil made me do it syndrome. Nobody ever wants to recognize the fact that we are responsible for our own actions in the end and the thing that we see and hear are only minor influences upon the real decisions we make in our lives. It's just another way to shirk responsibility, nothing more.