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cgod  ·  2454 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why can't we all admit that violent video games are sick?

I guess I'm narrow minded in that I don't feel comfortable assigning someone I haven't chosen to decide what information I or my family consumes.





kleinbl00  ·  2454 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My favorite part, personally speaking, is the syllogism:

IF: violent video games cause violence

AND: the author enjoyed violent video games

THEN: the author should be violent

Yet the article starts with

    I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just robbed a drug dealer and was peeling out in my getaway car — also stolen — and thinking about my next score when I saw her: a woman in high heels and a very small bathing suit. She motioned towards me and I let her get in the car. We performed a blurry parody of marital intercourse. After she got out of the vehicle, I ran her over. Then Judas Priest came on the radio. I cranked the volume and roasted the tires of my sports car beneath the orange moon.

    Because I was 13 years old and the above scene was unfolding on my friend's PlayStation, I am not writing this column from a maximum security prison.

He's gotta be trolling.