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Topic: Video games 'do not' encourage violence

{=EM=}Carcass

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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 16, 2008 11:45 am
Patrick Kierkegaard of the University of Essex, argues in the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry that video games are "harmless" and do not lead to real-world aggression. Moreover, he claims that previous research work has been unfairly biased against video games. Full Article Here

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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 16, 2008 12:02 pm
now try to explain that to politicians.
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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 16, 2008 03:25 pm
Finally someone who see's sense
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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 16, 2008 04:50 pm
Get a load of this guy! Video games are to blame for every non natural death since around 10bc.. Am i the only one that loves JT around here?
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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 16, 2008 06:09 pm
no rasta you are not the only one. He always seems to put a smile on my face or makes me burst into insane laughter each time he releases something in the press. in all he ain't a bad guy, but he should have become a comedian instead of a lawyer

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Category: In The News Posted: Thursday, May. 22, 2008 10:45 am
From the AdmiralMOD website:

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Category: In The News Posted: Thursday, May. 22, 2008 11:32 am
That's funny Somehow I doubt he "changed his life" because he himself was beginning to feel an overwhelming urge to go kill someone in real life because of his involvement in the gaming community... At least he doesn't bash others for playing them though... In the 60's, 70's and 80's, it was the music that was doing it. In the late 80's and 90's it was the movies and MTV videos. In the late 90's to now it's movies and video games. In the late 00's and 2010... who knows? Let's all blame something based on fiction for our increasingly hands off approach to parenting. And while we're at it, let's tell every child that they're the best at everything and give them a sense of entitlement, so when they get a taste of the real world they're bitterly disappointed by having to put forth an effort to accomplish things that an underachiever was told they were doing wonderfully at for the past 12 years of school ... /end rant LOL

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Category: In The News Posted: Thursday, May. 22, 2008 01:29 pm
qferret writes... Quote: increasingly hands off approach to parenting. Let's have the government do it for us!
Government cannot make people morally better by laws that interfere with nonviolent personal acts that produce no victims. Disapproving of another's behavior is not enough to justify a law prohibiting it.

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Category: In The News Posted: Thursday, May. 22, 2008 02:27 pm
PleaseMYOB writes... Quote: Let's have the government do it for us! Sad, but unfortunately oh so true...

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Category: In The News Posted: Friday, May. 23, 2008 10:41 am
I have lost count of how many times I have become frustrated with something/someone and to "cool off" I have played some war games and blew the animated heads off the enemy with my pixel ammo. You know what? After a while I get over what I was mad about and am able to handle the situation in a logical manner and surprisingly (yea right) I didn't punch someone, shoot someone, or hurt anyone or anything in the process. Through the use of video games I can take all my pent up aggression out on animated characters thereby living a temporal fantasy invoked by the stresses of real life, and get over it. If you are a normal human being you will do something similar in the same situation by the use of a game; you will not decide to do it in real life after playing the game. If Video games make you more violent, then you need to stop playing them but if you are that bad off in the first place, you shouldn't watch TV, read books, listen to music... heck, live un-medicated. I completely agree that it's nothing more than lazy parents expecting everyone else to raise their kids and then expect the kids to become contributing members of society... it doesn't work that way nine times out of ten. Raise your own kids, watch for their personality quirks and crush aggressive tendencies the moment they surface.