The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Key]

Originally Posted by Oriphiel

I can't believe people are still scared of violent video games.

What the **** is this, 1995?

Games have always been seen as the root of most problems so this is no exception. I've still yet to see a valid argument for connecting games to violence. It's mostly opinions. I dont think there's really any connection but again, that's just an opinion.

[OccultHawk]

Rock’n’roll has definitely inspired a lot of sexual promiscuity and physical violence. So has literature and film. I know very little about video games but I’m pretty sure they influence behavior as well. The important thing is that it’s still wrong to censor things even if they really do carry the gravitas to influence behavior.

[Key]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Rock’n’roll has definitely inspired a lot of sexual promiscuity and physical violence. So has literature and film. I know very little about video games but I’m pretty sure they influence behavior as well. The important thing is that it’s still wrong to censor things even if they really do carry the gravitas to influence behavior.

I can somewhat agree with that. Video games aren't without fault but I'm more of a believer that the type of violence they're talking about is from something far more serious than violence in video games. I'm sure there are exceptions so it's not really black and white. But yes I agree that the other forms of media do have a part in it as well.

[OccultHawk]

I lol at every explanation of school shootings that doesn’t start with school sucks.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I lol at every explanation that doesn't talk about the US being gun nuts

sure but that’s only like half of them

hardly anyone is saying well maybe if school wasn’t so ****ing miserable

[Frownland]

Aid is piling up on Venezuela's border. Here's why it's not getting in

What kind of monster turns down humanitarian arms?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Aid is piling up on Venezuela's border. Here's why it's not getting in

What kind of monster turns down humanitarian arms?

A little cryptic. What’s your take on what’s going on down there?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

is it just American education

or compulsory education everywhere

because why is the US the only developed country where this a routine problem

Compulsory world wide. The few dozen or so yearly American corpses are just a footnote to the real tragedy: hundreds of millions of destroyed spirits.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

A little cryptic. What’s your take on what’s going on down there?

Maduro's ****ed up but our intentions with the humanitarian aid is to open up a path for a humanitarian invasion.

[Marie Monday]

It's both school and puberty being horrible and gun availability. Taking either of those factors away would solve the problem I think, because it does not exist in countries that lack one of them