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Originally Posted by August
I don't pretend to second guess the experts Neo but what I can't understand is how can a person be affected by a 30 second commercial but not be affected by a 2.5 hour long violent movie or a violent video game that goes on for hours even days.
People have died from being unable to stop playing them. Like a crack head they play until they keel over from physical exhaustion. But it doesn't have a negative effect on them mentally?
Yeah maybe you and me and nearly everyone else isn't affected but we're a nation of 300 million people. Even if it's one in a million that for whatever combination of other factors is affected it's still 300 potential would be adam lanzas being created out there. I don't like those odds.
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Well the experts have been arguing over that point forever (kind of like gun control). Lots of experts think video games increase peoples tolerance to violence and increases aggression. There have been piles of studies, with results that go either way, and all of these studies frequently having more holes in them than a sieve (aka confounds).
Disturbed individuals who are likely to murder will go off no matter what medium they focus on (helter skelter for example). Plus like I said, everyone knows video games are not real, even at a subconscious level. Honestly I think the news media bears the biggest brunt of things as for causing these events, they are the ones that go nuts with coverage over events like this, and sometimes, what they are covering are actual events.
Also like it or not, guns (and other weapons) are what kill people in the end. That point is inescapable. There is logic in wanting to restrict the implements that make these events possible. Freedom versus a safer society... not an easy call.
Also honestly, I seriously question the effectiveness of advertising, I think its effectiveness is way overblown by the advertising industry. For myself, advertising can so enrage me that I will make it a point never to buy that product or any other products by that company ever again (like if they insult my intelligence, or endlessly bombard me).