Violence & Video games - Page 2

The ultimate video game, coming soon if not already here.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/19/drone-collision-in-afghanistan-sparks-debate-on-u-s-availability/?hpt=wo_c2 

Very relevant to the topic Moons. Maybe read the article that began with the post.

Anyway I'm done, you can go back to something more useful now like the song thread.


Kim 

He makes excellent points and it just feels correct, so much that he points out. I am still amazed at how many of my kids' peers are playing Call of Duty and glad mine are content with Brawl, for a bit more than 15 minutes, a day, ahem. 

The point isn't that violent games will turn children into killers, just that it trains them in that capacity whether that skill was intended or not. Without the violence in training/simulators that certain video's game are in essence, they could not be so successful when/if a child acts out in a killing rampage.

And probably the most concerning part-- is when the murderous children were asked why they kept shooting others, (even friends that weren't on a grudge list), the answer is "I don't know." That speaks of conditioning, doesn't it! And why parents need to be educated about what "games" are teaching their babies still in single digits, all these eager learners, something they wouldn't dream of putting on the back of a cereal box.

I dunno but, I have Play Station 2 in almost every room of the house and in Grand Theft Auto Multiplayer Free Mode if these are all kids playing they have some skills. Especially the birds in the air. I can see what they would be doing with drone controls in real life. Holy Cows. 

Everyone always kills me like as soon as I join the game. (lol) If I wanna play for any length of time I have to call up my brother and have him in the air with the Buzzard just so noone kills me in the first 2 minutes. CRAZY !!

Kim, I agree. I did not read the article because I know everything. Parents need to step up. A few months ago, I saw an ad for a game where they were building bodies into a hole.

This topic, in my eyes along with parents parenting, single parents raising kids or both parents working F/T jobs is a major contributing factor to the majority of problems socially and criminally. We are all going to be set in our ways, most of that coming from our upbringings and our parents. Times have changed dramatically even in my lifetime. We talked a little along these lines in other threads; kids not listening to adults, let alone their parents. Teachers, individuals with authority all the way up to a police officer, they're not worried and don't hesitate to be disrespectful to all of them.  Now we are not talking of each and every kid but I will say a good percentage, possibly the majority.

As a former LEO my biggest concern was when other LEOs didn't want to be "bothered" by "arresting" a juvenile. Thinking that it wasn't a real arrest. But in essence if the juvenile wasn't arrested when warranted then he/she "got away" with the crime thus making them think they could do it again, think that they were invincible or untouchable. Now, yes, some were thankful for the discretion or leniency and turned to the good but there are those for ALL the social, etc. reasons that will always walk that path of no good. If that juvenile wasn't arrested and given the oppurtunity to become a better person then when he/she becomes an adult and does a crime then that arrest will be forever or a very long time.

We can all bring up a million instances/examples but one of the biggest examples for me was Columbine. These kids were from wealthy or somewhat wealthy families. Only problem was no adlults were home and if they were they thought their children were "perfect angels" and could never do any wrong. Parents were not aware of what was taking place in their own homes. 

Unfortunately there ARE signs but the parental love blinds them at times. There is a good movie; I think it is "The Four Horsemen" with Dennis Quaid. And he was a police officer. Blind to what his son had become.

We didn't have those videos and our childhoods were much more productive. Yes, some of the vidoe games are great in the grooming for the IT world etc., etc. but IMO the violent ones serve no positive purpose. The studies, cases, experiences of say: the kid that is killing the neighborhood cats and dogs, the kid that is always starting fires, the kisd that is torturing animals and creatures. The majority has been proven that all the signals, red flags were there the entire time but either nobody noticed, parents said it was just a phase and so on.