ban chessboards
 

after the recent blaming of computer games for recent multiple homocides i wonder will the PC brigade be making statement to the press about the russan serial killer that claims his chessboard led him to kill 62 people and want to kill 64 people surley if there is any consistency in the arguement they must or is it that multiple murderers where operating and getting there minds twisted long before the game's industry was even invented :damn:

I remember when Clockwork Orange first came out in England. There was a rash of homeless people getting beaten to death or badly injured so I would say that it's a 'possibility' that some people might be swayed to violence by games. They were probably a little mentally unstable to begin with and fantasy led to reality.

People that do this kind of stuff are already going to do it anyway. I think its a certain percentage of the population are genetically inclined to whack out. Games, violence, etc. - maybe it turns this part of the mind on faster, but I'm sure it didn't create.

-S

Some even turn into politicians :p

Micky's gone all Jack Thompson on us :D

There is certainly no doubt that many people who are influenced and inspired by
fictional characters.

I have been inspired by many fictional characters, if you haven't than you haven't read
enough!

For the most part, people are inspired by real people or fictional people that they
can relate to.

When someone who has a casual interest in running sees a film about a gold
medal winning runner, he may be inspired to become better at running and go on to
win a medal of his own.
If he had not been inspired in this way then he would not have won the
medal.

It can also be a bad thing. When someone who has a casual intrest in murder sees a
film about a mass murderer, he may be inspired to murder and go on to murder
someone him self.
If he had not been inspired in this way then he would not have commited
murder.

We should not censor films that might inspire murder etc. because although they may be the inspiration and reason someone murders, they are not an excuse. The blame always lies with the person who committed the crime.Video games are a little different. They are not quite like films, but I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to inspire some one to do something good or bad that they would usually do as long as the game has enough emotional stimulation in it.

That story I failed to notice. But like you tell it - he wanted to kill 64 because his chessboard with 64 squares told him so - this initially sounds like an extreme obsessional neurosis to me. The need to meet numerical demands in any way, are an often observed behavioral pattern amongst such patients. For them all heaven falls down if they do not follow the numerical rules, whatever they are like.

I wonder why he didn't stop after 16 (=16 pawns) or so. :hmm:

It goes without saying that if it is like i superficially assume, then we are talking about a seriously ill person, and the example in no way should be compared to the debate about killer games - what you probably already know yourself. ;) Maybe he would have caught by the stones of the pavement, if it wouldn't have been the chessboard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessi...lsive_disorder

P.S. Better nobody dare to ban chess boards as long as I'm around! :arrgh!:

im saying that games are and art form like books and films if we were to put this in perspective the bible and the koran should be banned for inciting and causing much more bloodshed than any computer game has ever done if the people involved are insipired to murder from any one of these mediums then they are already unstable before they use these mediums these types of murders en mass have been around longer than computer games have been that is a pure fact and the video games industry is vetted far more seriously than any of the above media i would suggest that the PC brigade get a life its easy to blame games as in the columbine massicre but the real truth was insitutionalised bullying caused that incident but if far easier to blame doom or bioshock than addressing the real problem

Micky, I know you are at war with punctuation, but couldn't you at least try to start a new line every time you start a new sentence? Press the enter-button every time you would take a breath when speaking out those sentences loud.

hell not!
i love that game. its better than those friggin card game's :shifty:

i do take a breath shame that you cant without seeing a full stop or a comma:D

i will try in future lol

Yer, SB has a point.
I can't even begin to read your post. It burns my eyes.

SB = Selbstbedienung. :stare:

What's wrong with a little self service?:D

:hmm: depends in what centence :rotfl: