Anime Violence/Vid Game Violence linked?

[OmniStrata]

Just saw a G4tv link regarding the upcoming game: Bully and how vid game violence is linked to real world violence...



High School kids getting their hands on guns? I say if they managed a way to do that, and nobody noticed? That 'nobody' deserves to be shot...

Now anime, there's lots of the nasty stuff, Utawarerumono, DBZ [God no], Full Metal Panic, Berserk, the inhumanly possible Fist of the North Star... etc...

Does anyone think here that some time in the future [or maybe even, now] that anime can cause this kind of uh, phenomenon?

I think stupid parents cause stupid kids... [ignorance = stupidity about 90% of the time...]

Pride in parents...

People
Refusing
Information
Despite
Evidence

"My kid's not like that... blah blah*"

I for one think anime will never be a target of such lawful ridiculousness... If it is, then someone should stand up and say to ban both the internet and television broadcasts in any form whatsoever, since anime can reach us through both of them, they may as well ban entertainment in its entirety and we all live in warped Communism!!!!



Thoughts?

[BasharOfTheAges]

The only reasons video games are targeted is because they're looking more and more real every year and they're interactive. Entertainment that just involves you sitting and staring at a screen is better, in these people's minds, than that which requires participation and thinking.

[Lyrs]

Related,

If you're looking for something to read, try:
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Or Just go through the stories and posts of "Hellmouth".
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[madbunny]

Hmm...

I think that if you look you'll find supporting arguments on both sides of the coin. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that younger minds are prone to imitating what they see on television. Look at all the incidents of kids doing stupid WWF style wrestling moves on their siblings. dropping them on their necks and stuff.

On the other hand you'll find just as many that will point out that people that do stupid things like that are just as prone to doing stupid things like that anyway and that the TV just happens to be a convenient scapegoat for sucky parenting.

Personally, I think the way out stuff like DBZ transformations and hakamehamehanukuapuaha moves that they do are pointless since they are, you know... impossible. You're welcome to try. Other shows like Full Metal Panic, where Sausuke pulls a gun on a teacher and takes a student out of class to used as a hostage are drawn much more realistically. Of course.. that sort of thing already happens, so you're back to the sucky parenting argument.

-------------------- bottom line for me; if parents can't raise their kids, they shouldn't be allowed to blame cartoons for their own failings.

[x_rex30]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6143438/index.html

Violent video games don't make me violent nor does anime. I love the violent stuff but I don't think that makes me a violent person.

The people who do stupid things and could be blamed for violence in video games or anime are stupid people. People with some sort of mental retardation.. I'm talking about the people who would watch superman and think they could fly so they jump off a 30 story building and kill themself. I think they even thought of banning fantasy like entertainment because of such events. Also if they do end up doing something because of entertainment then they are most likely insane to begin with.

Isn't it christian organizations the one who attack these sort of things?

[bum]

I pray for the day when some rouge hacker jacks into the ABC's broadcast antenna and sends out a few words to the american nation.

PARENTS, THE TV, PLAYSTATION AND COMPUTER ARE NOT, I REPEAT, ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING YOUR CHILDREN.

[Austic]

I pray for the day when some rouge hacker jacks into the ABC's broadcast antenna and sends out a few words to the american nation.

PARENTS, THE TV, PLAYSTATION AND COMPUTER ARE NOT, I REPEAT, ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING YOUR CHILDREN.

100% dead-on

[wurpess]

I just want to say that I completely agree with the whole it's the kind of job parents do raising their kids, not the shows/movies they watch, music they listen to or games they play. Take me for instance, as a teenager, I loved horror films, I mostly read horror/sci fi/fantasy novels, I liked comic books, I listened to death metal, was goth, would occasionally play kinda violent rpgs, spent a decent amount of time on the internet. And this was the point in my life when my schizophrenia was at its worst. But I never felt the urge to kill anyone. Because I was raised better than that. And my 15 yr old brother is a video game addict who plays games that have been rated M for violence, and he's perfectly fine. Why? Because our parents did their job and raised us better than that. So if people like my little brother and I can get through life ok with all the violent games and movies and all the wonderful things that nowadays would "make a teenager homicidal and crazy" (me doing it with a psychological disorder), then it just goes to show that it's parenting, not the games/movies/shows etc that are doing it. And the parents that are making acusations like that are probably the same ones who plop their kids in front of Sesame Street for hours on end when they're babies/toddlers because they don't feel like watching them. So then, they grow up taking their cues from the TV instead of the parent because the parents are too lazy to interact with them. *sigh* Hooray for modern parenting. Well, I think I'm done ranting now.

[Lyrs]

The sad thing is computers and Web access might actually be better parents than the current parents some kids have.

[devilmaykickass]

People aren't blowing up their schools with kamehamehameha blasts, hitting their classmates over the head with gigantic mallets, or using random pieces of jewelry to turn them into dust. They're going in with guns, grenades, ect. If violence in kids is stemming from any form of media, it's from the fucking evening news.