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Advocate By artemicion on 2/22/2008 10:45:24 PM , Rating: 1 For
the most part, I'm ok with violence/sleeze in video games, but
just since the tech/gamer community seems to be so fervently
anti-censorship I do want to pose a few questions. First off,
I'm not convinced that violent video games ARE NOT a significant
causal factor in violent tendencies in people. Most gamer
arguments are anecdotal: "I played CS, and I don't kill people",
or "I have X number of friends who played GTA and none of them
kill people" which isn't convincing, in a global sense. What if
violent tendencies could be measured on a scale and violent
video games pushes you some negligible amount toward the violent
side, which, as gamers, we could defend by saying, "oh it has a
de minimis effect on people overall so it's ok". Or maybe .01%
of the population because their genes or the way they were
brought up are suscep