"Games like that are why murderers exist!"
Alright, alright... what the actual fuck? This, among other things, is the stupidest concept I've ever heard, and I spent 6 years of my life hanging about with some dimwitted boys from my local neighborhood, who spent all their time dreaming of taking over towns, assassinating world leaders and creating conspiracies without any proper knowledge of society and politics.
The games they target with that phrase, and other far-thrown... accusations I guess, are games such as Grand Theft Auto, Saints Row and any other game which features any sort of killing (aka every goddamn console game pretty much). So, in short, those who utilize that phrase are saying video games in a whole are the reason murderers and serial killers exist.
Here's a little bit of history for you. The Dark Ages... guess you could call it an era... it was about 1000AD. Back then, war was everyday talk. Wars were everywhere, non-stop. If one ended, another started. Hell, bandits and any other human trash that lingered after dark would rape, kill and loot any motherfucker they could, either for fun or for a living. Were there any video games? Was your average farmer, or high-class noble playing, what, "Caveman Rampage" or something? Nup, a fucking arched roof was as high-tech as it got, nevermind a computer game.
And when the 1500's came around, when they had cannons, ships, arched roofs, guns of some sort and that Leonardo Da Vinci guy kicking, there was still war, murder, raping, looting, pillaging... and yet, no videogames. None, I don't even think they had chess by that point, nevermind your typical first-person shooter, or even Space Invaders.
And now, when humanity has pretty much got it's shit together. When we've even got an international aid and peace organisation, the United Nations, which clearly dictates in it's name that it's all for peace and the alike... people are accusing videogames as the cause of psychopaths, murderers, rapist, and whatever else... well excuussseee meeee. Death rates are down drastically, there is nowhere near as many wars as there was. Whole villages aren't getting burned to the ground, people aren't going to battle with their neighboring villages over a bloody pig..... and yet, people blame videogames with violence for the, albeit still existing, murders and the related.
And if what they say is true, violent videogames brew violence in life, then does that mean playing Farmville makes me a farmer? Or Surgeon Simulator makes me a doctor (albeit a really bad one who uses a hammer to remove ribs)? Or playing Tropico makes me the president of some island off the coast of central America? I should think not.
To put it simply, parents don't want kids playing violent videogames so they spend more time in the boring presence of said parents, giving them more control over their kids.
That's the end of my rant. ^.^
