Games blamed for rape... in JERSEY?!?
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We really aren't looking at the bright side to all of this.wordsmith said:
However untrue it may be, if newspapers keep making this association, people will stop questioning gamers about how much time they spend on games. It is truly brilliant. Soon they may stop asking us for things all together!
No taxes on gamers! *forms his own religion.*
Its a phrase I use too often, ignore it.ColdStorage said:
Anyway, reaction times or not, you'd still have to be damned stupid to fight a guy twice your size.
Also, "taken on the big fella instead of raping a girl that nobody cares about". Are you implying that more people would give a damn if he stabbed the big dude?
"War games"?! Was this article printed in 1983?
Of all of the many, many, MANY things wrong with this article, including the fact that the kid's mental problems were more likely due to a bad upbringing or the article doesn't mention similarities to the crime and the game, I find it very amusing that they couldn't name this oh-so horrible rape-inducing game, or just call it a video game or a computer game.
In fact the whole article reads like a bad translation. This was printed in English, right? By an English-speaking person?
Of all of the many, many, MANY things wrong with this article, including the fact that the kid's mental problems were more likely due to a bad upbringing or the article doesn't mention similarities to the crime and the game, I find it very amusing that they couldn't name this oh-so horrible rape-inducing game, or just call it a video game or a computer game.
In fact the whole article reads like a bad translation. This was printed in English, right? By an English-speaking person?
He was angry, and he passed up the chance to fight, if he was that angry and a capable fighter then yes he'd have hit the big fella.dogstile said:
I've gotten into fights with bigger dudes before, and I never raped a girl.
Out of everything you could pick out to argue the semantics you use the option of "he's sensible for not fighting a guy bigger than him and then raping a girl", you have a problem with me calling him a coward?, what part of your mind goes and tells you its perfect sense to say to a guy "hey I have a problem with you calling a rapist a coward".
I'm not implying that, you are.dogstile said:
i don't normally take "the games are making kids violent" thing seriously. Its pretty much an excuse that shitty parents give to make up 4 the fact that they suck at parenting. the same arguments have been made about television as well, and we all know that no is willing to give up their TV. SO its only a matter of time when video games reach the point at which they become a modern necesity like the TV and the next new thing that kids are into becomes the target of future shitty parents
I don't see that at all. I said that /I/ don't care about the girl. Don't know her, don't care. What I was pointing out was the aforementioned avoiding of the big guy, when you mentioned the girl, I said i didn't care. She is irrelevant to that particular point.ColdStorage said:
Really?, she's irrelevant?dogstile said:
Your right she is.
Now where were we?, oh yeah, we were talking about how that rapist is fucking clever for not mugging a big fella and instead raping a girl.
GO HIM!
so what colour should our pom poms be when he gets released and we cheer his Newtonian brain of his?.
You don't care about a girl you don't know being raped, but you care about a rapist you don't know being libelled. Yes I see the logic there.dogstile said:
Amen. If the little **** thought he was that hard he should've taken on the heavy-set guy.ChromeAlchemist said:
Perhaps people blame video games for all the world's problems because it is something new that seems to expose people to violence. They use it in the Nature-vs-Nurture argument, because then it seems like there is something tangible that can be "solved" if they just work hard enough.
Meanwhile, going back thousands of years, people have raped, murdered, plundered, robbed, assaulted, and pillaged their way through life. My point is that these things that games are being blamed for have existed for thousands of years. Now, I'm not entirely sure of how time works, but I'm fairly sure that future events cannot influence the past. So it seems kind of silly to think that we're so radically different from our murdering ancestors, and video games are making us relapse or something.
Meanwhile, going back thousands of years, people have raped, murdered, plundered, robbed, assaulted, and pillaged their way through life. My point is that these things that games are being blamed for have existed for thousands of years. Now, I'm not entirely sure of how time works, but I'm fairly sure that future events cannot influence the past. So it seems kind of silly to think that we're so radically different from our murdering ancestors, and video games are making us relapse or something.
You don't get to choose whether your kid is mentally ill or devoid of conscience. For all you know, the kid was going to be set off by something eventually. It's unfortunate it happened when he was still a minor and can't be locked up for good - you'll see him doing this again in a few years.wordsmith said:
The way I see it, the only thing that would have stood a chance of stopping him was armed self-defense by the victim. Is self-defense legal in Jersey?
I think self-defence is legal anywhere =/ within reason. The cops aren't going to book you for trying to stop someone murdering you are they?Nutcase said:
the only reason this got any news is because of the fact he was playing a video game, i garantee if he had been reading a book, even if it was a smut book, it would have goten zero coverage. the media has always been out to bash the video game market
