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Originally Posted by rev214
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[/indent]"They've all trained on the video games," Grossman observed. Citing research conducted for his book Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Grossman advised that "the average kid has practiced over 1,000,000 kills in a simulator". Video games these days are "total virtual reality simulators", "simulating rob, kill, steal for hundreds of hours on end.
Grossman displayed a series of brain scans showing that kids of violence have underdeveloped forebrains and overdeveloped midbrains. In other words, there is scientific evidence proving that video games shut down the portion of the brain that is logical and predictable. "The safety catch is turned off."
Not willing to allow anyone to think violent media is the only factor, Grossman warned students not to "get caught in a single-cause model". He stressed that while the violent media is definitely not the only factor, it is most definitely the NEW factor. "take existing factors, add one new factor, and you double or triple the risk. Take the factor away, you reduce the risk by two or three times."
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This is the only issue that I have with this. It sounds as if he is subscribing to the Jack Thompson model of shootings: the EVIL VIDEOGAMES ARE DESTROYING THE YOUTH.
Just because someone has played a couple rounds of Counterstike doesn't "turn the safty catch off." I've been playing "violent" videogames since the mid 90s. I was 9 when Marathon came out in 1994. There is a HUGE difference between clicking your mouse on a bunch of pixels, and taking a gun and acting out in real life.
Even then, I knew that. I knew that videogames were not real life. There is a sharp difference, and people who can't tell the difference have other issues, with the disconnect probably rooted in home life.
But every time the news finds out that the shooter played Quake in the 90s, they blame it on the game, not the kid.
This:
DOES NOT EQUAL
