(August 8, 2014 at 11:53 am)Esquilax Wrote: I'm pretty much the reverse version of this claim: a quick perusal of my dvd and game collection will show that I do love violence and gore in my media. In real life, I'm a strict pacifist who utterly abhors any form of violence. I've never even been in a fight, never thrown a punch, certainly never felt any need to emulate my games, and I've been playing them since way before they were age appropriate for me.Same here. If games and movies turn us into violent rage-beasts, they should give me back my money. But, uh... I won't make a fuss if they refuse. :/
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
