Submitted by Coravin - March 26, 2008 at 12:57 am -050074.224.35.2
Uhh, yeah, that first question was just griping.

I KNOW why, more or less. Cognitive dissonance has to be overcome in order to keep us functional; and it's easier to keep doing what we already are doing, and believe that which let us do so, than to change our actions and beliefs to suit reality.

What I really want to know is why people haven't bothered learning from history when its results are all displayed so prominently and the lessons not that much harder to unearth. Hopefully this type of report, one founded in scientific method, will continue to be joined by others until the evidence on our behalf becomes so overwhelming it can't be ignored.

Not that this would prevent people from TRYING to ignore the science. But then it wouldn't matter as much that so many politicians would rather waste money tilting at windmills than spend the vast quantities of money and effort it would take to actually fix the real issues as displayed so prominently in this report (and millions of others on social issues). Because then their fallacies would be obvious (and precedent againt them strong enough) to curtail a lot of the money wasted by anti-videogamers.

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