Where Politics And Video Games Collide

@ Hans

Don't take it personally (which makes me a hypocrite, but, eh). I say this only because it will get your blood pressure up and waste your time. And an individual's experiences won't in any way sway "them" from the view that videogames are the source of all evil and are programming our idiotically-incapable-of-understanding-reality children to murder with all the realistic weapons usage involved in pressing X.

Unfortunately, neither does the fact that youth crimes have plummeted as violent videogame play has increased. Or that billions of gamers--not all hardcore gamers who would go for the nonexistent "ultraviolent" games, but there's a healthy percentage of us--are all around the world, even in higher percentages in much less violent nations, and it's nearly impossible to find a teen who HASN'T played such games.

Nor do they care that junk science is what sparks their fears. That all the videogame violence experts don't do any actual resource before spouting their "professional opinions" and don't know what "scientific process" is, let alone statistical significance, sample size, or controls. That the "evidence" for most of their asinine claims is that some person said that some person said that Jack Thompson said that he's an expert on videogames and KNOWS that every high-profile multiple murderer was taught on Doom or Counterstrike or BOTH and that he has hallucinations that studies which have never existed prove his ideas and everyone is against him, the harried Chosen Prophet of Our Lord. Or that every politician uses the same lines which have no basis in fact.

If "they" don't care that 99.9999999999998% of avid violent-videogame players (up from around a just-as-randomly-chosen and unfounded 93.8% of non-gamers) are perfectly normal, they certainly don't care that you're another one.