The video game blame and why the GOP should stay out

Blaming video games and movies was something I thought died out a decade ago

quote:

---

The real reason for the violence are lazy parents

---

But that would require us to, like, judge other people.

quote:

---

My wife and I are guilty parents. We buy our 13 year old games rated for mature. There is really nothing they can do about kids and games because if my kid asks for a game I will purchase it

---

Maturity isn't necessarily tied to age. As long as you tell your kid the difference between right and wrong.

quote:

---

If people's actions weren't influenced to varying degrees by what they see, billions wouldn't be spent on advertising each year.

---

This is a simple but very solid point in the debate.

quote:

---

people's actions weren't influenced to varying degrees by what they see, billions wouldn't be spent on advertising each year.

---

But banning isn't the way to solve the issue.

We banned alcohol using very similar arguments. Maybe Trump and the GOP should look how that turned out.

I agree that people shouldn't solely rely on games. But politicians will attack anything to get more votes. They just want a scape goat to avoid facing the reality that humans have agency and will act outside social norms occasionally.

And these other industries aren't any better. Real talk, Hollywood just wants to reduce its competition since they want people to go to their trash movies.

quote:

---

There is really nothing they can do about kids and games because if my kid asks for a game I will purchase it

---

People like you shouldn’t have children

quote:

---

My wife and I are guilty parents. We buy our 13 year old games rated for mature. There is really nothing they can do about kids and games

---

You sound like a doormat. Ye shall reap what you sow.

quote:

---

If people's actions weren't influenced to varying degrees by what they see, billions wouldn't be spent on advertising each year.

---

There still isn’t any correlation between violent games and any increase in a kid wanting to commit a violent act. Homicides and suicides by teens are at some of its lowest numbers in 50 year. The drop even started when the violent video game craze happened in the early 90s which led to the creation of the ESRB.

The majority of games out now have players killing others with guns yet as more gun games have flooded the market and games have become more realistic the gun related homicides and suicides among teens has continued to drop.

https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/70_fig1.jpg

quote:

---

The real reason for the _________ are lazy parents

---

This is the reason for every problem civilization has ever had.

If there is going to be an attack on a completely inanimate, inert object like a firearm for violence, then why not also attack interactive objects like violent video games which ever more accurately train vulnerable minds in the 'thill and excitement' of indiscriminately mowing down scores of people.

Firearms have been around for half a millennia, and this recent phenomenon of mass slaughter has only arisen in this current 'information age' era.

Of course, all this boils down to a deterioration of our culture, And that is always on the backs of the parents who raise the next generation. Trying to combat the effects of poor parentage without addressing the epidemic of single parent households, aka illegitimacy, is nothing more than putting bandaids on eruptions of cancer.

These problems came about in response to decades of attacks on the fundamental foundation of civilization = the nuclear family. Until those attacks are stopped the problems will only get worse. And at best it will take a century to undo the damage already done.

Whenever you meet a DEMOCRAT, you can personally thank them for the fruits of their handiwork.