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Slashdot Reports: "Games Lead To Violence and Drugs?"

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I never get tired of these. Another article about another group of people claiming that video games cause people to smoke crack and shoot up their schools. At least this study was conducted by a university, which makes it legitimate I suppose.

Legitimate or not though, video games do not cause people to do stupid things. People do stupid things, because they are stupid people to begin with. If you are actually mentally and/or emotionally affected by the content of a video game, then you shouldn't be playing the game. Why aren't these people doing studys on the parents of the people that play violent games? Why are there no records of the number of parents that let minors play mature-rated games?

I'm also curious as to why there is no crackdown on how violent movies affect people? Just because the movie industry has been around for a hundred years, doesn't mean it it's no longer subject to this sort of criticism. I also wonder if Jack Thomson has ever played a video game.

...Does Jack Thomson even have children?

posted by D. Cook @ 5:00 PM