I think that if anyone who plays video games commits any crime people blame it on the video game for some reason.
Games blamed for rape... in JERSEY?!?
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What a delusional child. I don't see what games had to do with it, nor why they had to be mentioned in the article. Unless he was shouting, "WHO'S GETTING BASE-RAPED NOW?", but that still doesn't justify placing the blame on games at all.
I believe that there is a law (at least in NY, I think it may be the same in Jersey) but when a person is tried and convicted as a minor he can only stay in jail until he is no longer a minor. The only way of getting around it is by trying them as an adult.scnj said:
I think that there are more people these daysEspirituExterminatus said:
More people means more chance of an extremely weird event happening
like every year 4 people die from eating Christmas decorations
So?randy11517 said:
I don't think you understand how (a) the British media works and (b) how the British middle classes work.
Let's start with b. There's a feeling around a lot of what you'd call middle aged people that things have gone downhill since they were kids. They haven't, of course, statistics for wealth, health, education, crime etc. have all improved decade by decade. but you combine this with a fear of the unknown and people will grab onto anything to explain why they don't feel comfortable. The truth of course being that they don't feel comfortable with the idea of change. Crime is apparently rising while all the numbers are going down, the youth of the nation are all feral drugtakers who mug elderly ladies, people complain about the standards of education slipping even though pass rates are on the rise then say "oh, that's because exams are easier". Let me just say I did an A-Level in Electronics and did past papers dating back to the 80s. They've got harder.
Then of course there are all the immigrants. I go to college in Shoreditch which is full of fashionable, arty people. Family from back home ask me what it's like there, I say "yeah, I'm enjoying myself but Shoreditch is full of..." I stop short, trying not to say wankers to my grandmother and chimes in with "black people?" That's happen loads of times and the demographics there aren't that extreme.
But anyway, back on point. The medias job is to sell papers, obviously. The biggest demographic these days is the middle classes so we get stories linking the unknown things, immigrants, todays youth culture, video games or whatever to crime, fear or terror and people believe it. Even my own mother believes the stories and I have to reassure her that I'm not going to get stabbed by an Arab on my way home or something. Is the media to blame entirely for this attitude? Probably not, but they sure as hell exaggerate things and make it impossible for people to keep up with modern life. People will see "GAMES" they will see "RAPE" and they'll think that games are teaching kids how to stalk and rape young women like some messed up cross between Splinter Cell and a hentai game.
No but Super Mario has influenced many kids to take magic mushrooms XProyohz said:
I find it stupid to blame video games, what if the kid ate rice krispies for breakfast, do we blame the rice krispies. Snap, Crackle and Pop made him so mad that day he was on the verge of bursting then his mother pushed him over the top.
Of the billions that play violent video games I would guess only a small fraction of them actually do anything like that. People that do stupid stuff like this are to be blamed, if someone is easily impressionable or cannot tell moral differences between doing something in a game and doing something in reality then that person belongs in a mental institute.
This is like those born-again nutjobs who said that Pokemon was the work of the devil... only without it being started by a Mexican TV Station to lower the ratings of a rival TV Station.
And it's the kid's fault, for not just trying to form a successful relationship with a girl of his own age, the immature bastard. And for not just buying a stress ball.
And it's the kid's fault, for not just trying to form a successful relationship with a girl of his own age, the immature bastard. And for not just buying a stress ball.
Games were involved. There is a timeline which the article laid out. He played games, got into a fight with mom and then raped some lady. The way you are making it out the journalist could have said he drove home, had a fight with his mom about cars, went out and raped someone. And this is why people shouldn't drive cars. Now everyone is going to try and ban cars.Grand_Pamplemousse said:
I am often angry at my mother but I never feel like going out RAPING someone! I often just go hang out with my girlfriend and play a few games to cool down, come home and then work things out with my mom so that we need not argue. Now if she thinks I am playing too much games (only happened twice) I just turn off the console and read a book for a few hours and maybe hang out with a friend, I have other fun activities. see he had plenty of options but since he took the stupid one gamers get blamed.
