> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:09 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Jack Thompsom is an Asshole (VT Shooting)
>
> You can't have a culture of violence, and we do, and think that
> doesn't have an effect.
>
> Sure, the bulk of us might be able to watch Grindhouse, and then play
> 5 hours of Doom, and then watch CSI, and not shoot up a college. But
> some of us can't and all it takes is one to kill hundreds.
There has never been a well-performed study which has shown a causal effect
between violent media and violent acts.
Consumption of violent media does trigger an small, temporary increase
aggressive behavior although not in immoral behavior. This is exemplified
by driving faster, or betting more aggressively in games of chance. But
there is no indication that individuals are more likely to intentionally
harm others because of it.
A recent study also showed that the effect is the same for all violent
media, regardless of graphicness. Realistically portrayed violence elicits
the same reactions and results as non-realistic ("cartoony") violence.
> Therefore one question is, do we want a society that celebrates
> violence in film, video games, and television? It would seem to me
> that if we want a vice it should be s3x, not violence.
Apparently we do. Murder rates in the US are the lowest they've been in
decades.
I completely agree that we need to stop fearing boobies as well, but there
is no evidence that violent media, and video games in particular, had causal
relationships in any of these crimes. It's for this very reason that Jack
Thompson has been unable to win a case.
Violence is an undeniable aspect of the human condition. It should be
celebrated and understood, not sanctioned and repressed.
I wholeheartedly agree that video games, in general, lean towards violence
more than they need to. I would like to see them, like books and film, run
a more rounded emotional gauntlet (and in many ways that's already
happened). But that's a personal desire, not a claim of social
responsibility or change.
Jim Davis
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