| This may seem crazy, but I really started getting into one of the GTA games a while back for a short period. Driving all over the place, running people over, smashing into cars, etc. The crazy thing was, when I went outside and hopped in my truck, my first instinct was to drive like I did in GTA. Obviously I didn't, but the instincts were initially there. I could see how playing it obsessively and not having a whole lot of activity up top could lead to people doing some pretty dumb things that they picked up in the game.
Cutting cops in half or setting them on fire? Doing things like that as a way to get street cred or for a laugh or whatever in a game can never lead to good things. It's just disgusting.
Now, I don't agree with the whole thing about conditioning kids to be killers by playing videogames, or by shooting silhouettes of men in a target range, or by playing cops and robbers, or any other silly idea. |