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FirebrandRoaring  ·  2450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why can't we all admit that violent video games are sick?

In other words:

If these kids enjoy violent video games, is it because of some addictive quality of virtual violence, or is it because they needed to satisfy that destructive urge?

Many things can make one bitter and quietly yet furiously wanting justice from the world itself. Children are not immune just because they have smaller emotional vocabulary to express than the preachers of adults.

I notice that when people protest something about themselves with vigor, that quality they possess. They know it and want it to be false. Under certain conditions, introspection could be reached, for those people to look inside, at the monster they don't want to look at, and admit how wrong they were.

It was disenchanting to realize for the first time that I can't do anything about it. I can only hope that introspection might come.