Rick Carlson wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
On Tue, February 20, 2007 10:59 am, Rick Carlson wrote:
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.
And this is related to video games how? Are you saying that such things
never happened in human history with any frequency before high tech?
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?
And all this was going on before SUV's came into existence.
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.
Again, an aspect of human psychology with no evidence that it's a causal
effect of video games or SUV's.
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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An observed truism I've often expressed myself. I suspect that empirical
evidence would show that these people tend to drive that way under all
conditions. My grandmother probably saw the same behavior with people
driving horse-drawn wagons too fast for road conditions (damned lorries!).
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