Do video games cause violence?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

Kuwait, at least, is heaving with video games of all descriptions and knock-off copies are only a few dinar each - unless something's really changed in five years since I was last there. And Dubai had a video games expo this year. I know these are two moderate middle-eastern countries but they do get a lot of people visiting from the rest of Arabia. Both Saudi and Yemen - two less moderate countries also have huge gaming markets - albeit mostly knock-off again!

Africa, well you're probably right there!

Just found this on the Telegraph website:

One former Guantanamo Bay inmate who went through the programme, which features "positive thinking" classes, art therapy and video games, is now deputy leader of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, the cell in Yemen behind the attempted Christmas Day bombing on an airliner as it approached Detroit.

So maybe shot ourselves in the foot there!

[Sammi79]

No, but violence has caused some great computer games.

[the_tyrant]

what is so bad about desensitizing?
I hate those little kids who squirm and scream when they see a picture of a girl in a bikini.
I also hate those girls who through up at the sight of blood, even a small cut

[Penguin]

I wonder what video games the Nazis had played that lead into committing one or two atrocities....
I am glad that their allied counterparts played Wolfenstein 3D - though it was all in black&white back then...

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Marcus Brigstocke

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

[AVGWarhawk]

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

It is the irony of the entire thing that makes that particular ironic joke funny. But still, blaming that on video games is ridiculous.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I'm just glad their are places where there are no video games (Violent or otherwise)... like Africa and the Middle East...


... such nice, peaceful places...

they have radical religion, don't need video games.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Actually this happened to many people of the Pac-Man-generation: they became ravers....

That is Marcus Brigstocke's point - he is a very funny man.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Armistead

they have radical religion, don't need video games.

We have radical religion too - Catholics blowing up/shooting Protestants and vice-versa - everyone seems to forget that...

And the religious and righteous anti-animal testing, anti-abortion, anti-muslim brigade.

But this is a topic covered before and not for continuing here and now.

[Penguin]

the dumb humourless German doesn' t get the irony, arghh

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Penguin

the dumb humourless German doesn' t get the irony, arghh

We'll help you adjust Nobody called you dumb (not me, anyway).

[Penguin]

naah, it was just self awareness...

Don't you think it is sad for todays youth that anything gets blamed on video games?
We had at least heavy metal, zombie movies, comic books and video games to chose which of these turns us into violent maniacs!

[Takeda Shingen]

If firearms, with which you can actually kill people, don't kill people, I don't see any way that a video game could.

[SteamWake]

Ya know thinking about it Autocad or rather Cute PDF has driven me to voilent behaviour. Just yesterday I was so damn frustrated with its inconsistancy I slammed a keyboard and broke it

But seriously kids like this one need to be watched...

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

If firearms, with which you can actually kill people, don't kill people, I don't see any way that a video game could.

You know I was thinking the same thing even when I wrote my first response. However as far as certain video games or any other subject matter goes I should draw the line. That for me is the issue not whether an inanimate object such as a gun or firearm could cause something to happen, they cannot. But there is certain subject matter that should be guarded against.