: Cowboys and Indians can be called racial but it's not. I mean now you hear
: all about how 'the white man came and killed the Indians who lived at
: peace with nature'. What about burying people up to their necks and
: pouring honey on them so they'd be eaten alive by ants? Seriously both
: 'Cowboys and Indians' did wrong things but that's no reason to say that
: one is evil and the other wonderful.
: As for 'army' the point of the article was that video games are all bloody
: and unsanitized. But wait... movies do the same thing.
: I agree that games may influence some people but that's what the ratings are
: for, right?
I was talking about army and stuff because while these excessively protective and irritating corporations are picking on video games for being violent they never notified people that when they were kids they did that sort of pretending thing and doing violence that is quite similar, like they'd take sticks and stones and play "Native Warfare" together or something... So long as their equally stereotypical parents didn't come along and complain about the chances of accidentally poking one another's eye out.
I don't think that video games are the CAUSE for kids flipping out and heaving pipe bombs at everybody like the Columbine punks, I just think they're the effect. The video games just teach you how to kill. The cause for these reports on violence is by problems in life (bad parents, crappy school, no friends, little or no respect, bullies etc.), and that is what drives us to kill. Knowing that we're going to come to school with an arsenal of weapons and start blasting people, we might most likely have no real experience with gunfighting and so may rely on what we gained through playing video games to our advantage.
