Video-games take another "beating"

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Two explanations:
1) The Bystander Effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Or
2) people are just dicks. Your choice.

 

[Dexiro]

This has absolutely nothing to do with video games. Peoples attempts to pit the blame on games is just getting pathetic now xD

Even if desensitization did play a part it's 10x more likely that movies and tv were the cause.

I kind of understand how the bystander effect works too because i'd probably be too scared to do anything. I wouldn't know what to do and i wouldn't want everyone watching me fuck up.

 

[dbungus2000]

HA HA I used to feed the homeless when I was a kid (christian dad made me) and believe me, they're not the type that play video games!

 

[1trakm1nd]

And you know some other homeless dood saw his body and was like ooh free shite.

 

[Mechsoap]

people are afraid to get noticed or stand out instead of helping someone in need, videogames... raelly thats a old news excuse now just shut up with that cnn and others

 

[Ldude893]

Video games don't encourage people to not help people when injured, many of them encourage people to help others (i.e. Left 4 Dead). But the reason why nobody bothered to even call an ambulance or take the man to a hospital is lost on me.

 

[Galebaby]

Anything to shine a light away from the thought that people might actually be bad without video game interference?

 

[Naheal]

Correlation does not imply causation.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

It's quite simple, a lot of people nowadays play video games, instead of watching TV or reading newspapers, old media feels threatened, needs to lash out at new media because it fears it.

It's just sad when it gets to the point of 'You can advertise your book on our news show if you'll say what we want to hear'.

However, that doesn't always work out, remembering with pleasure the woman who condemned the hardcore lesbian porn scenes in Mass Effect, then it came out that she'd not so much as even seen footage of the game, just heard some stuff about it.

Then suddenly her book is dropping thru the amazon ratings like a stone, due a flurry of one star reviews all along the same lines - 'I haven't read this book, but I don't need to because I heard hearsay that it's a bad thing, so one star'.

Was a wonderful piece of justice, and just a shame we can't pull something similar on the news giants.

 

[HK_01]

Two things:

1) The people who just left that guy to die are complete assholes, especially the ones who took a picture and the one who turned him over. As long as you just glance at him I can imagine that you may think he merely passed out from too much alcohol, but when you clearly see he's injured and don't do shit you're a fucking idiot.

2) What does this have to do with videogames?! Seriously, I'm pretty sure this kind of stuff happened before the first computers were developed, or TV, or radio for that matter. Also, are they seriously telling me that all of these people that just walked by were gamers? How can they assume that? When you take 20 random people from the street, I'm pretty sure at least half would not play games, or at least not regularly.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Maybe they'd been playing Condemned.

 

[Yassen]

Deep sigh.

Really? I mean.... really?

I thought you were better than this CNN. You claimed that being desensitized to violence because of violent video games and movies caused all those people to walk by that dying man. Let me ask you this, did these people walking by happen to be around when he was stabbed? Did they actually see any violence?

No, they saw a homeless man lying on the side of street, like hundreds of others. Yes some people checked him and those people were despicable, but it's also possible he didn't notice the marks and assumed he was drunk. You want a cause for this behaviour?

It's called being human. It's called the bystander effect, something you did mention at the start of your segment before quickly dismissing it in an atrocious attempt at ratings. This has been happening for centuries, uncomfortable as the truth might be. Then you have the nerve to say "I wonder if this would have happened in my home town", so not only are you being completely disrespectful to this dead man's memory, but you're now taking the high and mighty route and saying you and people from your town would have helped.

I highly doubt that.

 

[xDarc]

I generally stop to check on people, but I did something like this once.

It was after 2am and I stopped at a red light. A car sat in the left turn lane on the other cross street... through two cycles of lights. I was afraid if I went, the silly drunk bastard would surely pick that moment to wake up and slam down on the accelerator.

Of course he never moved and I had a quick stop to make. Promised Id check on him, if he was still there, on the way back. I came back from my stop ten minutes later and the paramedics were getting ready to lift him into an ambulance. I stopped to tell them the guy was there since at least this time, and they told me it didn't matter, he was dead.

Oops. Probably didn't make any difference. But still- oops.

 

[Auric]

And video games have WHAT to do with people being a twits and not dialing 911 or 000 or whatever number it is in that country.

 

[Legendsmith]

I have 2 responses to this claim:
My physical response:
*Facepalm*
Verbal response:
Haters gonna hate, not gonna stop me playing games. I'm a very helpful person, playing games doesn't desensitise me to the needs of others.
That is all.