Re:Two bills target video games following Sandy Hook tragedy
by rhdoenges on Friday January 18, 2013 @01:21AM
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Violence in books is textual, so it's going to be far less vivid for the reader than a video game where you actually cause the violence. Additionally, violent books/conversations/thoughts/lectures often focus on the negative aspects of violence rather than glorifying it the way movies and video games do.
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Re:Two bills target video games following Sandy Hook tragedy
by r0s on Friday January 18, 2013 @02:21AM
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Some would disagree: http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/BADLIT.HTM
It's a familiar horse to beat, this NEW media is special, and different and scary.
It happened with jazz, rock&roll, comic books, movies, novels, heavy metal, many scapegoat has met the whip of the righteously ignorant. It's always been a meaningless argument, totally void of scientific fact.
Were there wars before fiction? Was there crime before video games?