Lan Barnes wrote:
On Tue, February 20, 2007 10:59 am, Rick Carlson wrote:
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And yet...
Children without any real-world experience grow up playing Grand Theft
Auto where it IS a video game. Their reflexes and emotional conditioning
are set before they get the real world experience.
Anybody else hear any Pavlovian bells ringing?
Is it just a coincidence that the Army says they find it very easy to
train new recruits to become tank drivers because they have already
honed their skills playing realistic video games?
Are you arguing that video games foment violent behavior? Because my
understanding is, despite LOTS of study, there is no credible evidence of
this.
No. I do not have the expertise to argue it one way or the other. As a
citizen with a few years of life experience I suspect that viewed within
a vacuum there is no evidence of video games fomenting violent behavior.
But having grown up in the 50's and 60's when racial hatred and things
as silly as the general attitude towards littering have undergone
radical changes I have watched as my generation has changed its views
and responses to reflect mainstream attitudes. To be sure there is
plenty of racism and indifference to the harm that littering does to the
planet but those attitudes are not so widespread or accepted in the
general public these days.
Note that my statement was that anyone who thinks a REAL car protects him
from harm when he does a REAL bonehead and reckless maneuver on the
highway has a serious problem, that problem being discriminating between
reality and non-reality
So noted. can you also accept that many people who, feeling threatened
by other drivers menacing them with SUV's driven in such a way as to
indicate they feel invincible in their large vehicle, feel a need to
buy a SUV just to have a chance to survive a crash with another one?
Reality vs non-reality does not always exist on the freeways otherwise
you would not see people reading newspapers as they drive down the
freeway, or shaving, or putting on makeup, or changing clothes, or
talking on cell phones that obviously are too much of a distraction to
allow the driver to be aware of his/her surroundings.
For that matter explain why some drivers think that increasing their
speed during a rain storm or thick fog makes it safer than slowing down
to a safer speed during those conditions.
Rick
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