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V-Tech panelist: violent video games should be banned |
Listed in: PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Counter-Strike, Germany, Microsoft, Virginia
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We feel sorry for the victims that lost relatives and loved ones during the V-Tech incident. However, it's hard not to feel the same towards the video game industry that takes all the blame.Recently, a Virginia Tech Review Panel was held and it was suggested that violent video games should be banned like heroin. Why? Panelist Don Phau not only mentioned Jack Thompson's allegations against Counter-Strike motivating Cho Heung-Sui, he also claims that the game is related to the Erfurt school shooting in Germany.
According to this Thompson-wannabe, FPS games were made after the Vietnam War by the industry to make money. He also stated that Microsoft developed Counter-Strike. What's next? Mario's mushrooms are actually drugs?
"These games, I propose, should be banned. The same way you cannot buy heroin; the same way you cannot be a 16-year-old and buy pornography," said Phau. He would've been correct, if we lived a few years ago before the law against selling video games to minors have been passed.
This man is obviously uninformed though, so cut him some slack. He even gave figures: 82% of kids can buy M-rated games. His report is pretty much seven years old, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
Via Game Politics
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Question: Isn't that the entire reason people make and sell ANYTHING?
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Violence is a part of life, video games have no bearing on it... Unless it is provided to unstable people. So how about these 'panelists' 'politicians' and 'lawyers' shut the hell up, and fight for people whom are yet to be diagnosed with a mental issue?
It's a cold sad, and idiotic world we live in. The most famous artists would have been criticized, excommunicated and shunned by the kingdoms and governments in the centuries past for anything non-conformist, and humanist. Now we go view there works hanging on walls and remark of the beauty and artistic qualities.
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Uh, hey dum-dum. There is no such law in any part of the U.S., thank you very much.
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If the parent tells the kid that video games shouldn't be taken seriously, and teach them right from wrong, I don't think anything bad would actually happen.
If anything, it's the parents' fault if anything bad happens because of video games. I'm really tired of seeing blame on violent for ***** that happens in real life. What? When a kid jumps off a building because he thought he could fly like Super man and dies are you gonna say that super hero movies should be banned? *****ing grow up and stop blaming things like a *****ing retard.
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