9 year old boy commits suicide, videogames to blame....really?
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I've probably been ninja'd but oh well.Cpu46 said:
Usually in public bathrooms there are little hooks on the back of the toilet cubicle doors, and it was shown on a mythbusters episode that it was possible to make a rope out of toilet paper that is (just) strong enough to support the weight of an adult man to use it as a means to escape from the roof of a prison building (approx. 25 feet).
Even considering this, it sounds strangely premeditated and would require a wider scope of information than videogames are known to provide.
People tend to hang thenselves in movies more than games so I think if you're going to put the blame on something from a screen, movies would seem more plausible.
But you never know. Maybe it was the Slender Man or Obama made who him do it? Seriously though, this 'doctor' is off her nut.
But you never know. Maybe it was the Slender Man or Obama made who him do it? Seriously though, this 'doctor' is off her nut.
I totally believe it. I do whatever Gordon Freeman tells me.
I believe that we Americans scapegoat things because we live in a perpetual fantasy that "things were better back when, before ." Americans fail to recognize that things have not changed, people always have done fucked up things, and always will, the "good old days, when men were men and women cooked, and all was right" never were, there were always problems, and they were just as bad, they just didn't get publicized as much. The only difference is the frequency and manner in which these calamities are reported, and the impulse to scapegoat some minor factor which the fogies don't understand and are thereby frightened.
If you're going to kill yourself because of video games, you were going to kill yourself anyway, because **YOU** have a problem. YOU have responsibility for your actions, nobody else does. If a kid is going to shoot up a school because he played Doom and listened to Marilyn Manson, it was still his choice. Does anyone really believe that video games and music take away free will? Because thats the argument that asshats like this are making.
I believe that we Americans scapegoat things because we live in a perpetual fantasy that "things were better back when, before ." Americans fail to recognize that things have not changed, people always have done fucked up things, and always will, the "good old days, when men were men and women cooked, and all was right" never were, there were always problems, and they were just as bad, they just didn't get publicized as much. The only difference is the frequency and manner in which these calamities are reported, and the impulse to scapegoat some minor factor which the fogies don't understand and are thereby frightened.
If you're going to kill yourself because of video games, you were going to kill yourself anyway, because **YOU** have a problem. YOU have responsibility for your actions, nobody else does. If a kid is going to shoot up a school because he played Doom and listened to Marilyn Manson, it was still his choice. Does anyone really believe that video games and music take away free will? Because thats the argument that asshats like this are making.
it's amazing everyone is picking on Fox News when most of you are from a different fucking country that doesn't even receive Fox News, and for thos eof you that do, you jump on a band-wagon that is going nowhere because you have no idea what you are talking about.
OP: Yes, it is ridiculous that anyone would blame video games for this horrific exploite. It's also disrespectful that this so-called doctor is deciding to jump the shark and say that video games are the root of this problem when there is no scientific evidence supporting this claim, or even any evidence supporting such a blurting of words in the first place.
OP: Yes, it is ridiculous that anyone would blame video games for this horrific exploite. It's also disrespectful that this so-called doctor is deciding to jump the shark and say that video games are the root of this problem when there is no scientific evidence supporting this claim, or even any evidence supporting such a blurting of words in the first place.
I've killed, oh, about a few thousand people on MW2. Now I really want to go out and kill in thousands in real life. It's utter bullshit.
Wait, isn't suicide the result of depression or mental despair? I can't see how videogames would lead to this, no matter how violent. If videogames where related to any suicide it seems rational to belive that it would be extremly indirectly. (like the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend.)
Isn't blaming video games now the same as blaming Marilyn Manson in the 90s? People would love a simple explanation for violence and suicide like that, but it's just entertainment. Sure, some kids go psychotic over games (see: "Greatest freak out ever" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc]), but even that's entertainment.
(P.s. I don't care if the video's fake; it makes me laugh... step off.)
(P.s. I don't care if the video's fake; it makes me laugh... step off.)
I've killed around 10,000 people that are "infected" in LFD2. Now I'm going to hospitals with an assault rifle and shooting the "infected" there as well.Offworlder said:
I agree.
Maybe he'd been playing hangman?Sylryeth said:
On topic, I have been playing violent games like God of War since I was 11-12 to now, I've never been "marked for life" by this. The very few examples of kids that gets violent and things like that is a case where the kids are probably very sensitive to games and TV in general.