Vietnamese kid kills a girl due to video games.....

[Pyro Paul]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/teenager-kills-girl-feed-video-game-habit-232801135.html

Don't trust this story...

The Teenager is a blatent psychopath and this can be easier seen as the starting of a serial killer. The murder itself is too premeditated and thought out and the bounties he claimed from his deed where not quickly hawked for cash in order to feed his addiction.

if he was an addict you would see a softer incline of escalation based on theft... the innevitable murder which may of occured due to any addiction would of been less thought out and more impulsive.

 

[Subwayeatn]

Fortunately according to the articles comments, people realize that video games aren't to blame in this situation.

*phew*

 

[^=ash=^]

There's a difference between an addict and a murderer. An addict will get withdrawals, a murderer will do something serious to stop them. Unfortunately this boy was the latter and the cosequences were simply awful.

As many have said before me, this isn't a normal person's way of dealing with shortness of cash It was pre-meditated, cold-blooded murder.

xxx

 

[Canid117]

Why are they showing a picture of the murderer instead of the victim? Why are they making that sick fuck famous?

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Thank you, little vietnamese kid. Thank you for making gamers around the world look like addicted psychopaths for everyone to point fingers at. AGAIN.

Seriously, this kid had a problem. Anyone who decides to kill someone for earrings to pay for online gaming is a psycho already, so I don't quite think we can lay all the blame on game addiction.

But try telling that to an anti-game person. They'll think you're nuts. >_>

So says Sky News.

I wonder who they're owned by.

But...Wouldn't Skynet WANT us to become addicted to gaming, making its takeover that much easier?

 

[Iron Mal]

My sympathies to the families of those involved, death is always a tragedy.

As for the people worrying about the possability of a backlash against video games for this, of course there will be.

As for if I think video games are the cause? No, I'm not just saying this because I am an avid gamer (although I guess that does have a bit to do with it) but because I think that most people are complex enough that it would probably take more than one easy to identify and rationalise thing to drive someone to an irrational act of desperation like killing a girl for her earrings.

There are probably people out there who do let their love of games go too far and do horrible things as a result (the same could be said for many things though, how many murders have been committed as a result of the Bible and other pieces of literature?) but to say that the medium as a whole has a corrupting influence seems to be avoiding the real issue in favour of something easier to blame and rally against.

I personally believe that the cases of 'video game addiction' probably stem from deeper issues, I'll admit I used to be very bad about my gaming habits during my teens (during which I had pressures from school, my parents fighting and breaking up, obvious changes going on at the time, my own inherant social difficulties and other issues), I didn't feel like I could talk to anyone or do anything about it and playing games was at least something I was really good at and helped me forget the stuff that was troubling me (rather than having my problems weigh upon me I could simply turn around and reduce them to a fine paste with a chaingun).

 

[trebthegamer]

Fortunately according to the articles comments, people realize that video games aren't to blame in this situation.

*phew*

that might be our co-gamers. but seriusly it's getting harder to keep these idiots at bay until something new and different is going to pop up before they leave video games alone. greece managed to ban every game once but that didn't last long. all we can do is support our games in a peacefull manner,grieve the loss of a young life, feel sad for the life gone wrong and keep on hoping people will get to their senses in time

ps i game A LOT and in addition i have been bullied and annoyed. but so far i haven't been waking up in a pile of blood and i never expect to. i'm starting to think it was better when gaming was seen as nerdy and pathetic and not the possible end of civilication.

 

[Julianking93]

Okay, I will admit that this is a horrible and tragic thing but the kid is fucking crazy anyway.
If it wasn't games feeding his addictive and crazy arsed personality, it would be something else.
I don't understand why the article is putting all the blame on games instead of the insane little fuck who did that.
It almost plays him out to be the victim for beating a little girl to death.
Good job on the reporting there.
It says right in the first paragraph he was playing a massively popular online game.
So does that mean all those other people are crazies who will murder for a bit of cash?
No, it doesn't and I'm tired of people acting like one incident means everyone in that group is the same.
The media really makes me sick to my stomach that they take this tragic story of a girl's murder and twist it into a way to make video games as the ultimate form of evil.
I didn't know the horrible biased form of journalism that is Fox News spread to the UK. Now I'm scared >.>

 

[The Stonker]

My thought is that there are addicts in every single walks of life, I mean lets face it guys, everything is addicting.
Football is addicting.
Excersise is addicting.
Alchahol is addicting.
Etc, etc.
So why are we excusing that things can't be addicting? Sure, you can get addicted to video games but I think this needs a bit more then just being hooked on a game.
Maybe the kid has serious psychological problems?
Maybe he's retarded?
Who knows?
That's why I always hate it when people point at video games and say that they're the devil, why not INVESTIGATE! Why the hell did he do it?
I would probably guess that he has a shit life and that he has anger management issues, not due to his video gaming, but rather to well, psychological problems.

LoL, Water is addicting, and the withdrawal symptoms are a *****.

Seriously though, people shouldn't confuse compulsion with physical addiction.

What is your point of quoting me? I jumped with glee when somebody quoted me and that I might maybe speak with someone about this point.
I guess not.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

That is fucking tragic. Luring a little girl into the woods and beating her to death for her earrings? Screw the gaming bit. This is just a tragedy.
EDIT: Seriously, screw that little fuck.
EDIT 2: How about we not talk about some silly possible backlash for the industry? A little girl was just beaten to death.

Tell the second edit to the people running the story. I completely agree with it. They take an awful crime and turn it into an agenda, don't blame the people here for getting pissed about it, it's not (just) about it ranting on games (although don't mind us for getting sick of it by now seeing as it's a constant thing), it's about them being fuckwits enough to do shit like that in the first place.

Whoever was behind that article should be ashamed of themselves. It takes a special kind of heartless to turn an incident like this into an anti-game rant.

 

[Vrach]

That is fucking tragic. Luring a little girl into the woods and beating her to death for her earrings? Screw the gaming bit. This is just a tragedy.
EDIT: Seriously, screw that little fuck.
EDIT 2: How about we not talk about some silly possible backlash for the industry? A little girl was just beaten to death.

Tell the second edit to the people running the story. I completely agree with it. They take an awful crime and turn it into an agenda, don't blame the people here for getting pissed about it, it's not (just) about it ranting on games (although don't mind us for getting sick of it by now seeing as it's a constant thing), it's about them being fuckwits enough to do shit like that in the first place.

Whoever was behind that article should be ashamed of themselves. It takes a special kind of heartless to turn an incident like this into an anti-game rant.

Yep, the ironic thing is that they're talking lack of morals at the gaming community and pulling shit like that. Someone get those assholes a mirror.

 

[Random berk]

from the article:

Elizabeth Woolley, who set up Online Gamers Anonymous after her son Shawn committed suicide because of his addiction to online games, said it was time governments stepped in and did something about the ever-growing habit.

lady, listen. it's not games that made your son commit suicide. it's probably what prevented him from suiciding much, much earlier.
if she had done her duty as a mother, she would have known something was wrong with him, and that it wasn't the videogames.

Whoa hang on, so you, without any facts are blaming the mother from not being able to prevent her son's suicide? That is just as low and speculative as the people blaming videogames for causing violent behaviour

I think his point is that the video game was unlikely to have directly caused the kid to commit suicide, but some other stress in his life could have. Maybe he was being bullied, or doing badly in school. The mother simply didn't notice these, and when he did himself in, she assumed it was something to do with his favourite hobby. Its a much more likely scenario, although there is also the possibility that he actually was messed up enough to kill himself purely over a game. Its just somewhat doubtful. Only the people who knew him personally could say for sure, and only the mother knows whether she really was paying enough attention to spot the true cause of his state of mind.

Ya that's my point, only the people who know that situation can speculate as to what caused her son's suicide. Where I stake issue is him claiming she failed as a mother for not being able to prevent it

He's not claiming that she could have stopped him, he's claiming that she wasn't paying enough attention to notice the real cause for his depression, which would have allowed her to talk with him about it, get him help, and at least have a chance to prevent it. He is of course still making the assumption that video games were not a direct cause for his suicide, but to be honest, I'd highly doubt that the kid killed himself because his WoW subscription was out of date, or because he was having an off day in Call of Duty.

I'd imagine it could be because he lost his online friends.

I guess that could be a reasonably plausible explanation. If he would kill himself over that though, it suggests to me that he had no friends IRL. If I had a kid and he was that isolated, I'd like to think that I'd be aware of it, and therefore pay more attention. Having said that, maybe she did, and a sudden online fight depressed him enough that he killed himself without warning. No one will ever know now.

Local a man drank 15 Monsters and strangled himself, bottom line he had a mental defect that caused this outside influences didn't help but it was mostly him. And they still sell emery drinks to kids.

Seriously? As in with his bare hands? How is that even possible?

 

[FalloutJack]

Not because of gaming. Kid has issues that existed prior to the playing of the game.

 

[Vengeful Dusk]

How is this any worse than when murders are influenced by other thing, like movies?

A comment i saw on the article mentioned how Jamie Bulger's murderers were supposed to have been influenced by the film Childs Play. Looks like As long as there's something the mass media can use to create a moral panic, it seems they're going to flaunt it :-/

See, why isn't anyone proposing to restrict the viewing of Child's Play then? It's all these anti-gamers. Instead of simply feeling sorry for the poor girl who got killed, they just use it as an excuse to get publicity so that everyone knows they hate video games. It's pathetic.

Actually, there was a massive societal panic in the UK at the time. People were horrified about the content of the film and what it had "made" these young people do, leading to the mass media utterly demonising it, including The Sun newspaper running a campaign begging people to burn any copies they owned of any violent/horror films. So it's not just video games that get scapegoated, it's whatever is most hated in society at the time, in a way.