Spirit Icana wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but Thompson says that video games are corrupting young minds-- he dubs some games as murder simulators. Do you think he's wrong? I don't believe games are at the point where one can really be compelled to kill outside the virtual world, but I do agree that most video games are corrupting. I'm not going to get into a argument about Jack Thompson here. Oh, and not everybody has common sense (why are you looking at me like that?)
Videogames are corrupting....
Wow. Now that is a loaded statement, so let's take look at it piece by piece.
Videogames are corrupting the youth of America. They are spreading lies and misconceptions about topic after topic. The youths of America are playing games about skate boarding, car jacking, basketball, football, baseball, spaceships, and kids going out to save their girlfriends from dragons.
Oh...wait a minute...kids aren't going out and stealing cars and murdering people because they are seeing it in a game or going off to find a dragon to slay.
They are, however, playing sports, which they were doing long before they started seeing it in videogames. So, kids are being influenced by videogames, but they are only getting more interested in things they were already doing.
So, yeah, look at all that corruption. Makes me sick.
Spirit Icana wrote:Yeah. A deal that was big enough to get journalists talking. Maybe parents too, no?
I'm not trying to defend Jack Thompson on stupid things he's said recently, but I'd really hate to see his predictions (some bizarre, and others frightening to people) come true. I can understand where some guys are coming from with all the....uh, hate. I won't say Thompson doesn't deserve it. What I would say, is that his intentions may be better than what many are gathering on the surface.
So, barnstorming legitimate entertainment parafanalia that is really not harming anyone is really intended to save us all from that horrid corruption that is going to have armies of teenagers roaming the streets just looking to mimic the outrageous (and we know it's all outrageous) actons of a videogame.
Now, to start preparing for a massive and terrible apocalpyse like this, we should really start having all these laws passed to save ourselves.
Oh, wait a minute. They tried that 20 or so years ago when politicians were afraid of massive teen uprisings....and not a god damned thing happened.
There is an old, and somewhat cliched saying, that goes something like: "The road to hell is paved in good intentions."
But frankly, intentions meant to turn capitilism and freedom of choice into fascism, is something I can do without.