Re: Grand Theft Auto inspires Thai murder
There are countless things used responsibly by many and abused by few; why single out video games? As Luvian said, it's a fantastic scapegoat for bad parenting.
If you can make up reasons to ban certain games, you can make up reasons to ban anything. It's also a little patronising to say that society needs help protecting itself, that we're all too weak and impressionable to decide for ourselves what to play or watch or drink, that we need it decided by a higher authority and imposed on us.
I've been playing violent video games for a long time, as I'm sure many members have, and I've never so much as contemplated harming another human being. The types of people prone to influence from video games and subsequently commit crimes because of them were messed up to begin with. Sure, the game may have given them an idea or two, but it rarely made them crazy in the first place.
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