tazdevil wrote:selurcspi wrote:Does anyone want to bet this murderer:-
Participated in no adult organized activities (except for perhaps Band/Choir) growing up!
Lives in his parent’s basement (at least still at home)!
Watches lots of violent Movies!
Has spent 20 to 40 hour per week playing violent video games for the last 10 years!
These are all noted factors in the perpetrators of ALL of the mass killings since the first one in Jonesboro AR.
As a reference see - Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence [Hardcover]
Gloria Degaetano & Dave Grossman
http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Teaching-Our-Kids-Kill/dp/0609606131
But therein lies the problem if you believe that's to blame for this. Do you start banning these types of movies/video games etc? What's the difference then between banning that and banning negative comments about our President etc.? Or banning any weapon whatsoever? At some point, as has been pointed out,
PEOPLE NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS/INACTIONS! Or in other words, live by some rules!
Kind of like, "Why can't people just be crazy? What about Adolph Hitler? What was in HIS cd case?" - Chris Rock
While Chris makes a valid argument, it's incomplete. If nothing else, continually putting violent images and suggestions into people desensitizes some people who are prone to violent behaviors. Notice I said PRONE to violence. Take someone with mental conditions favorable to committing violent acts, then give him/her input to visualize the violence, think about the violence, dwell on the violence, imagine the violence - what do you think is going to happen? Now, all this violence-prone person thinks about is ... violence. Are they not more likely to go "do as they think"? Notice, too, that I'm talking about the violence-prone person. Maybe it doesn't affect YOU, but that doesn't mean someone else won't respond to it differently. When it affects the person's attitude, then it becomes programming to influence his/her decision-making. This is all just basic Psychology. Whether its violent input or psycho drugs or whatever that triggers something inside certain people, it only takes a few people to respond for the 'system' to shut down the rights of the general public, and whatever our opinions on the impact of violence, that is the important thing to be watchful of in these times we live.
But, for a moment just think about it from the other side of the equation; if you have someone who's obsessed with anything (violence or whatever), what kind of therapy is going to help that person? Shovel more of that at them? Ok, so it's not going to help. Doesn't have to be just violence that works this way. Could be may things, for example, child porn... Child molesters need to likewise be held accountable, but giving them child porn in jail is not going to rehabilitate them, is it! Show most people child porn and they'll be disgusted at it; but we know that to some, it kindles a kind of evil response. Why would violence be any different?
As a man thinketh, so is he...
We don't need to ban anything. We just need to stop encouraging it! I stopped giving my money to most of Hollywood a long time ago for that reason. I can take responsibility for my decision, but I doubt I have any right to force others to do what I believe is moral. If I could even make them do what I think is moral, their compliance would mean little because it's forced. I certainly cannot make them believe as I believe about morality. We have to change people's perceptions, not their actions. So, go ahead Hollyweird, produce a violent movie; if it has no demand, it will go nowhere and more like it will not be made. But, that's not how it works... people go give their financial support to these things, thinking it doesn't matter. It's as if no drop thinks it's responsible for the flood. Maybe some day, people will realize that if they want society to be different, they themselves have to THINK differently.
...sent from my mom's basement after choir practice...
