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Old 08-05-2008, 02:33 PM   #27
Jaradu
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Default Re: Grand Theft Auto inspires Thai murder

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Originally Posted by Yorick View Post
1. It's being singled out, because it's a current event. The murderer didn't say he had bad parents, took drugs or was angry, he said he was checking out whether the theft was as easy in reality as it was in the game.
I'm no psychologist, but to me that sounds more like a crazy person who picked up a video game than a sane person who picked up a video game and turned crazy.

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2. Who is a "good parent"? All parents screw up. Besides, it takes a village to raise a child. Parenting alone doesn't make a child wonderful or evil. Plenty of bad/absent parents result in beautiful people, and plenty of great parents have crims.

Whatever we as a society can do to self improve, we should do. The almighty dollar should stop being the sole motivator when people release art into society. Artists, creators and entrepreneurs need to wake up to their responsibility in shaping society.
And who decides how to shape society and what to shape it into? What if some people disagree? How can you force artists to accept responsibility without denying them their right to artistic freedom?
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