Darth Wong wrote:You can't hold the game responsible for the actions of people in the real world,
If only everyone realized this truth, the could attack the problem at it's core,
society. What video game did Jack the Ripper play again? Or Adolf Hitler? There are many psychopaths out there, but when one or two have played a game with violent content, oh no! That evil,
evil game corrupted that person! I guess psyhcopaths wouldn't exist without computer games urging them on.
but that's a far cry from an endorsement.
No need to endorse the game at all. Fans of said games do that all their own.

I fully support the notion that young kids should be watched and restricted from excessively violent games. But that's not the game makers responsibility, that's the parent's. Once the game makers have stated "not recommended for persons under age#", I consider their hands clean.
I personally was playing Doom at a very young age, and have been playing games of violent nature ever since. But when I went to a real gun range, I was nervous as hell and it took me a couple of minutes to just pull the trigger on a .45 pistol. Damn, if only playing games where I fired off rocket launchers in rapid sequence, leveling buildings and killing "people" left and right had given me such confidence in the real world.
The problem these idiots do not understand is that a person has to be already mentally unstable to consider a computer game a training ground for reality. Given the level of stupidity in the human race, I suppose this viewpoint really shouldn't come as a surprise.
I view this game much as I view rape/misogyny porn: it's not necessarily causing the real thing, but I find nothing of redeeming value in it.
Well, it
is very entertaining. Similar to how watching a moon sized battle station blowing a planet into fragments, killing millions in the process. Or a lightsaber dismembering people, people being choked to death, shot by energy weapons, etc, etc.
IMO, computer games have not been responsible for violent crimes in any sense. Violent crimes like rape, murder, driveby shootings, etc existed
way before computers altogether. This is just another excuse for society to try and find a scapegoat for it's problems, rather than facing the truth that society's problems require only one ingredient: people.