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<blockquote data-quote="gman042" data-source="post: 1068074" data-attributes="member: 36560"><p>[h=5]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Consider this. </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Many years ago issues were settle much differently....usually with our fists. An occasional knife might have been used but hardly ever. Guns rarely....if ever. However that was then and this is the now.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Now...we have a society that is filled with violence. Violence on TV. Violence in video games. Violence in the news. We AND our children are bombarded on every side and from every source with acts of violence or scenes of acts of violence. These seeds of depravity are planted in each of us when we are but at a young age. It is not the world that shapes us. It is what we allow ourselves to experience in this world that shapes us. But we have to cope somehow with what we see and hear. Most of us choose not to see and hear but this has a worse side affect. It desensitizes us to the violence. And when we choose not to see the violence in the world we have lost sight of the line between reality and fantasy.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"> The worst offender is the video games. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"> Don't tell me that those shoot 'em up games don't damage a young child's psyche.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"> Don't tell me that the mindless carnage and shooting rampages portrayed in these video games do not damage a mind. Surely these types of games influence a mind that is teetering on that line between sanity and insanity and how they process and deal with stress. </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">To function within the constraints of normal society we owe private and social duties one person to another, or to a community. When something snaps and that unstable person slips into insanity they deviate from the ordinary standards of honesty, good morals, justice, or ethics as to be shocking to the moral sense of the society. Horrible crimes are committed against society. </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">We all wonder why. I think we all know why we just don't want to acknowledge it. The reasons may not be simple and they may be different for different people. But one thing is for sure...... it is not the fault of the gun.</span></span>[/h] <strong><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Furthermore....there are those that would say we have always had violence in our society. Think of the westerns that we used to watch when we were younger. The westerns of yesteryear. How much blood and guts did you see in those westerns. It used to be none. You would see gunsmoke and a man would grab at his chest and the passive viewer was left to his imagination. Then they progressed to a little fake blood to indicate a bullet hole. In our quest for reality in the fantasy of movies now Hollywood leaves nothing to the imagination of the passive viewer. If you want blood and guts you will get much more that what it necessary for entertainment.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Notice that I said passive viewer. When watching a movie you have no control over the actions of the characters involved in the movie. You take the action as you get it.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">That is not the case with video games. The gamer can do anything in that game he wants to. He controls the action. If he grows tired of killing zombies...perhaps he will hunt the living characters in the game. Just for a change of pace. There is no passive in gaming. The gamer controls the outcome. Again....because of the demands of the gaming society the relative innocence of video games of yesteryear are infantile when compared to the complexity and graphic nature of games today.</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gman042, post: 1068074, member: 36560"] [h=5][SIZE=2][FONT=century gothic]Consider this. Many years ago issues were settle much differently....usually with our fists. An occasional knife might have been used but hardly ever. Guns rarely....if ever. However that was then and this is the now. Now...we have a society that is filled with violence. Violence on TV. Violence in video games. Violence in the news. We AND our children are bombarded on every side and from every source with acts of violence or scenes of acts of violence. These seeds of depravity are planted in each of us when we are but at a young age. It is not the world that shapes us. It is what we allow ourselves to experience in this world that shapes us. But we have to cope somehow with what we see and hear. Most of us choose not to see and hear but this has a worse side affect. It desensitizes us to the violence. And when we choose not to see the violence in the world we have lost sight of the line between reality and fantasy. The worst offender is the video games. Don't tell me that those shoot 'em up games don't damage a young child's psyche. Don't tell me that the mindless carnage and shooting rampages portrayed in these video games do not damage a mind. Surely these types of games influence a mind that is teetering on that line between sanity and insanity and how they process and deal with stress. To function within the constraints of normal society we owe private and social duties one person to another, or to a community. When something snaps and that unstable person slips into insanity they deviate from the ordinary standards of honesty, good morals, justice, or ethics as to be shocking to the moral sense of the society. Horrible crimes are committed against society. We all wonder why. I think we all know why we just don't want to acknowledge it. The reasons may not be simple and they may be different for different people. But one thing is for sure...... it is not the fault of the gun.[/FONT][/SIZE][/h] [B][FONT=century gothic]Furthermore....there are those that would say we have always had violence in our society. Think of the westerns that we used to watch when we were younger. The westerns of yesteryear. How much blood and guts did you see in those westerns. It used to be none. You would see gunsmoke and a man would grab at his chest and the passive viewer was left to his imagination. Then they progressed to a little fake blood to indicate a bullet hole. In our quest for reality in the fantasy of movies now Hollywood leaves nothing to the imagination of the passive viewer. If you want blood and guts you will get much more that what it necessary for entertainment. Notice that I said passive viewer. When watching a movie you have no control over the actions of the characters involved in the movie. You take the action as you get it. That is not the case with video games. The gamer can do anything in that game he wants to. He controls the action. If he grows tired of killing zombies...perhaps he will hunt the living characters in the game. Just for a change of pace. There is no passive in gaming. The gamer controls the outcome. Again....because of the demands of the gaming society the relative innocence of video games of yesteryear are infantile when compared to the complexity and graphic nature of games today.[/FONT][/B] [/QUOTE]
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