re: Violent video games and desensitization

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We have been using video games for decades to train soldiers. Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox) is one of them.

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So why in a country like Japan that, shares our appetite for violent videogames and media,do we not see these type of massacres?

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Could be a number of factors. Certain races have a higher rate of cancer.

But yes... they have had violence.

LINK

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The surge in youth violence has sparked calls for a reassessment of the increasingly violent and sexually charged youth culture in Japan, now exported worldwide through animation, comic strips and video games.
The young killer in Sasebo, whose name is being withheld under Japanese law, was an avid fan of "Battle Royale," a popular teen movie turned Internet game in which students kill one another through blood sport. Although the girl is still undergoing psychological evaluation, she is believed to have been set off by a seemingly minor offense: The victim, one of the girl's closest friends, once called her "overweight" and "prissy" on a Web site.

Japan has experienced a rising tide of serious youth crimes, including arson, assault, rape, manslaughter and premeditated murder.
Incidents of violence on school grounds have increased fivefold in Japan

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2001- At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers.

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We don't run kids through an Xbox game and then send them over to fight.

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Yes sir..... We do use video games to train. That game I listed was used.


6 Military Video Games Used to Train Troops on the Battlefield

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And you’re being willfully obtuse if you don’t think that realistic, violent, murderous role play is a part of what enables these people to go out in real life and act in a way that humans have never acted before

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Yea I heard that Jack the Ripper never would’ve killed all of those women had the not learned that behavior from beating up hookers on GTA V. People are violent, always have been, always will be. To act like violent mass murders against innocent people are some new behavior is being willfully obtuse.

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Violent video games and desensitization

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I'm not sold on this being the reason for the violence. Every generation has dealt with violence. I think it is an over all moral degradation in society due to parenting issues, religion stepping back a bit, certain societal moral rubicons crossed over, etc...as in there are some thing you just don't do and some places you just don't go, but many of these walls have been broken down into moral relativism. To me, it is a whole package of things that contribute such as all that I mentioned.

I grew up in the 80's and we had some violent games. Back in the day Westerns had all sorts of killing. The family unit was stronger years ago though. Morality was stronger over all...leading me to conclude there is more to this violence than just the violent games and such.

And to ignore the fact that the CIA has committed numerous declassified atrocities against the American people and regularly manipulates people en masse and probably shouldn’t be trusted is, again, to bury your head in the sand. I no more take the CIA at their word than I would any other violent sociopath who tortures, manipulates, and kills people for fun.

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Violent video games and desensitization

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No. Are do you want to take away guns as well. And rock music.

bullshite , games have nothing to do with it. It’s violence in the home that needs to be dealt with.

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However, in the 80s less people were exposed to violent games.

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I think we agree mostly, but I dunno about this. We had a lot of arcades and a lot of shoot 'em up games and most my peers and I frequented them. But without a doubt your point on guns is valid. Glad we could counter point each other with civility.

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Many believe that violent videos are no big deal, but I have always believed it plays a big part with a percentage of people.

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I play violent games and I am 38. Certain videos I have seen on liveleak etc stay with my more than a melee attack in COD. I vividly remember a Chechen cutting a Russian soldiers throat and that was probably a decade ago.