John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>| Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at
>>| Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that
>>| used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill.
>
> I don't like violent video games. I think they're a mindless waste of
> time. And as much as I dislike Microsoft's company policies, I don't
> think you can blame the Virginia Tech tragedy on them.
>
> This guy was clearly bonkers. Just listen to his rantings on the DVD.
> He was so far over the edge that just about any kind of input would
> probably have set him off. Did the game contribute to his decline ? I
> don't know. How about a violent movie ? There's lots of those.
I think that people immersed in a violent environment will be affected
by it - the only question is how they cope. If you consider a diet of
constant violent films, games, news, books, stories to be a kind of
propaganda, you should be able to see that impact is unavoidable. The
counter argument is that "normal" people cope - both arguments have
sufficient truth in them to typically prevent the debate getting any
further, because most people consider these two issues to be opposites,
which they are not.
>
> In any case, its too early to start pointing fingers. I wish the news
> services, attorneys and gun law advocates would go away. The families
> of these kids have enough to cope with right now.
>
Well, it's their raison d'être, so they're not going to give it up.
The pro-gun lobby are going to turn up in numbers to every massacre
until the US laws are changed to stop the massacres from happening by
ensuring that such people cannot buy or readily obtain guns.
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