Terrorists used flight simulators to destroy the World Trade Center... It's a flight simulator, it's meant to learn you how to fly a plane. Just like boat captains have the same virtual training. It is a tool. I probably shouldn't learn how to cut bread. I'm bound to use this dangerous knowledge to stab down my family. Nice linking of videogames to terrorists though. This'll definitely convince anyone narrow minded enough.
"We must me carefull who we pretend to be." ...Like sensible politicians who know what they're talking about... Like it's been stated over and over again, it's lack of parental guidance: parents that let kids play games over their age limit that is the problem, not the games themselves. The porno industry is one of the largest in the world, but for some reason they're not generalising it saying that all movies are bad for you like these guys are about games, especially considering that the largest game category is children's-games. Flight simulators...
The witch hunt on videogames is now a quick way to get votes. It's based on a stereotype created by ignorance and enforced by people taking what a few scientists say out of context. I'm so glad people with some actual knowledge about the game industry is fighting back against this, because it's honestly getting on my nerves.
Columbine times ten? Of course! Playing Doom will make you so violent you'll ensue mass murder. It's got nothing to do with how you're raised or your social life, and you certainly wasn't involved with other kinds of violent content. No sir. It's all that one videogame's fault for warping your mind. I've been playing games my entire life and abide by the age limits. I have yet to bring guns to my school. In fact, I learned the very language I'm writing right now because of 'em.
So what happens if these people get it their way and get into controll? These 10x Columbine slaughter children of theirs will find something else. The really gory games they hate so much are to a very large degree based on shock effect. People don't go to scary movies to "have a good time". They go there to get scared out of their mind, which is why they usually have that extra 'cool'-factor. You dared to see it. The parents could at least the very least say no and not just blame whoever made it. If game companies are forced to stop, something in another industry will start drawing in the crowds. If you raise your kids to be jerks with guns, they probably will be.
I seriously hope these guy's find something better to do with their time and quit forcing their delusions on everyone else.
