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Originally Posted by Flash
Completely agree that it is basically a knee jerk reaction to attempt to expalin something so enormous. A question though- do you think certain video games, certain dvds and other aspects of youth culture breed a degree of violence?
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No, I don't think it is that simple. Perhaps video games tap in to the latent violence that is already there, but I would argue that they do not create that violence. Violence has always been with us. What would we blame for the violence in pre-video game days? Maybe it is something really simple, like there are just too many of us living in such close quarters, that violence comes from friction. And on the question of "youth culture": is this not laying too much blame on "youth"? Surely much of the violence in our societies is perped by adults, the middle aged, and sometimes the old. Canada's latest mass killer, Robert Picton, killed god knows how many Vancouver hookers (they haven't finished counting yet) and it is probably the slimeball never saw a video in his life (apart from porn).