And they blame video games?

[hbarcat]

When I was a kid we played with real toys like this:

And I didn't know anyone who wore a helmet to ride a bicycle, either.








The few kids who were lucky enough to survive to be adults wouldn't be the type to do stupid things and then blame video games.

 

[Eric Perry]

Apple seeds breed apple trees. incompetent parents will look to apportion blame onto anything and everything they can, so as not to accept responsibility for their kids turning out to be prison filling. It's GTA, it's Marylin Manson, and it's Larry Flynt. It's anything and anyone except for worthless parents.

 

[Lalabadie]

It's anything and anyone except for worthless parents.

As if worthless parents existed :scowl:

In Quebec there's a lot of parents blaming the school for everything. Teachers should be paid thrice what they're paid right now because they have to deal with more problematic parents than kids.

 

[Eric Perry]

In Quebec there's a lot of parents blaming the school for everything. Teachers should be paid thrice what they're paid right now because they have to deal with more problematic parents than kids.

IMO, the parents are SO much worse than the kids. I've dealt with similar issues in both educational and social service settings.

 

[Jazz Ad]

Young male mammals are agressive by design. They need a way to bring it out.
You can blame toy or game companies, TV, parents, society or whatever you want, you will still be missing the point.

 

[Eric Perry]

Young male mammals are agressive by design. They need a way to bring it out.

While this is true, the concern is with the escalating problems with today's youth, male and female.

You can blame toy or game companies, TV, parents, society or whatever you want, you will still be missing the point.

After many years as a State Certified Family Therapist, I will continue to blame a very high percentage of the parents, thanks.

 

[Jazz Ad]

Stats show a decreasing, not escalating problem.

 

[JacoLesFlea]

When I was a kid we played with real toys like this:

And I didn't know anyone who wore a helmet to ride a bicycle, either.








The few kids who were lucky enough to survive to be adults wouldn't be the type to do stupid things and then blame video games.

+1 also I use to have the cap gun that looked just like a cowboys. Silver plated with a white grip and you would have this red roll of caps that would fit into the cylinder and feed up thru were the hammer would hit the cap causing it to pop when the trigger was pulled. I use to love the smell of the popped caps.

 

[Eric Perry]

Stats show a decreasing, not escalating problem.

I would respectively, yet vehemently, disagree with this.

No offense, but you live in France, the only information you have to go on in the U.S. is statistical information, which can generally be skewed any which way. Look at global warming. For every stat pointing one way, there's another pointing in the opposite direction.

 

[sasquatchofohio]

the reason why i posted this thread is because i have owned 5 grand theft auto games and im not a mass killer, im not an arsonist, and i have never done this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mo002JUxRVQ

 

[Happynoj]

I don't think that you can blame violent children on anything except the parents.

My parents made it very clear to me from an early age that violence and killing were wrong. I have managed to hold on to those values, despite regularly listening to Marilyn Manson, Korn, Slipknot, etc. from my early teen years, as well as playing many violent games - GTA2, GTA3 and GTA Vice City spring to mind immediately, as they have probably been more accused than any other games. On the shelf immediately behind me, I have all of those, as well as MOHAA (+ Spearhead, Breakthrough), Operation Flashpoint (+ Red Hammer, Resistance), SWAT 3, SWAT 4 (+ Stetchkov Syndicate), Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Full Spectrum Warrior, Hitman 2, Max Payne and Brothers In Arms. They are all violent games, but I have never felt even the slightest violent tendancies. I have also never felt compelled to steal a car, or go and destroy an alien race [Starcraft, Dawn Of War (+ Winter Assault, Dark Crusade), Prey], or get on a skateboard and grind on cars [THUG2].

I blame the parents.

 

[theshadow2001]

While you have a certain point about those big florescent toy guns. I don't think that when kids play with them they are exposed to the same realistic violence that can be seen in GTA and the likes. All that said. I don't think that computer games and toy guns are the source of a kid being violent. It can be any number of things. But blaming computer games is just an all to easy excuse.

 

[freakonaleash]

Societies have always looked for an easy target to point and blame, always conveniently turning a blind eye to the root causes, that can only really be changed by governments making a stand. Which they don't, in the majority of cases. :scowl:

 

[hbarcat]

Societies have always looked for an easy target to point and blame, always conveniently turning a blind eye to the root causes, that can only really be changed by governments making a stand. Which they don't, in the majority of cases. :scowl:

The reason that some kids act like jerks is because the government isn't involved enough???

 

[afinalfantasy]

Games do not make people violent. It's been proven again and again. I used to play violent games all the time, I wasn't violent then and I'm still not.