This kind of game would be just as challenging, and certainly more stimulating intellectually.

—It might also prove more interesting than ethernal competition for “score” or “bragging rights”.—

Right.

Cheers!

As a side note, I do think that abstracted and removed violence could
cause someone to not realise the reality of actual violence.
For this TV is much more to blame than games
since the destruction and pain are real but they do not touch us.
TV makes intellectualising and rationalising violence as normal and not
affecting us easy since we are not exposed to it in any way.

Therefore, children must understand the reality of violence.
Since they must also be protected from it this might not happen.
Without experience to help them see things from the perspective of the victims
childrens can think it’s ok to use violence because they do not have to suffer the consequences.

It would therefore be nice to have games teaching people
to help each other, be kind and compassionate.
It might also prove more interesting than ethernal competition for “score” or “bragging rights”.

Maybe there already are games where the goal is not to destroy, conquer or otherwise defeat an enemy but rather to build, create and improve places, things or societies.
It is too common that these only serve as means to destruction or competition.
Or maybe we need to make them.

As a father, I’m really alarmed by these violent games. I know first-hand just how easily a youngster’s mind can be turned from watching something such as Rockstar ‘games’ without the experience to put it into context – if there IS a context for this kind of stuff.

Snuff movies?

Anyway, it’s not exactly the same as the p2pnet post so I figured I could get away with it ; )

But I believe the problem is deeper than this.
If you let TV (on which there are real horrible and graphic atrocities)
educate your children you should not afterwards blame games for their actions.
Children learn from those around them, and it is up to the parent to do the hard work of raising children.

To ban or not to ban? Not the point. Rather a distraction.
To educate or not to educate is the real issue here.

Are you quoting yourself in this story or am I missing something?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it just seems odd.

Or is this story from someone else?

Also, the comment about losing readers is odd.
I though this was a place to get news and information?

If you do not agree with a story you can post why you think the position is wrong.
If you think the news is bad, wrong, whatever don’t just say it’s bad.
Post a compelling text explaining why you think so.

Drake

When these people commit a crime the media tries to find out what made them do it and the easiest explanation they can come up with is that a violent video game, or lyrics in Manson’s songs pushed them over the edge.

I say that if you can’t see the humour of running over a group of Hare Krishna who are walking around chanting on the street, then you need to lighten up.

PS2 sucks (lolol)

also, frontpage says Rockstar video pirated, shouldn’t taht be videogame?

But this kind of crap is way out of bounds.

End of story.

YOu have been warnbed.