RE: Violent games don't cut it
August 12, 2015 at 5:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2015 at 5:38 am by Fake Messiah.)
I heard Anita Sarkeesian talking how because women are portrayed like whores in some game will drive gamers to treat and think of the same for women in real world, but I think that's just opportunistic stupidity. Because firstly men aren't portrayed any better - you know running around with chainsaws and cutting people - she never comments how gamers will think of men? Because it's stupid notion from the start. Maybe if someone was living in the basement and the only notion of reality they had was from violent videogames could you perhaps expect person to behave like that, but in reality those games are just violent sexual fantasies worlds in which people sometime dwell to release some steam, because not so long ago we had much more violent lives of hunting, killing people and watching brutal sports. And certainly among competitive adolescents it's much better to compete in violent games then in violent reality.
If you think of problematic children then those probably fall into those that don't have money for videogame hardware and go around streets yelling and other mess. That's why I think video game consoles should be handed to kids for free, especially in cities where there are much less playing grounds.
I don't play VGs anymore because I don't have patience or interest, but when I played I like those bloody games probably more like "Duke Nukem" or "Jungle Strike" because they were more fun and adventurous.
If you think of problematic children then those probably fall into those that don't have money for videogame hardware and go around streets yelling and other mess. That's why I think video game consoles should be handed to kids for free, especially in cities where there are much less playing grounds.
I don't play VGs anymore because I don't have patience or interest, but when I played I like those bloody games probably more like "Duke Nukem" or "Jungle Strike" because they were more fun and adventurous.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
