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I spent my youth playing first person shooters. Now, with a little bit more life experience under my belt, participating in a war simulator feels a bit tasteless.
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>> I doubt the exterior door would be weaker than the interior one. It's simply not logical. Maybe you're referring to the locks in which case you have a point. But exterior doors in my area tend to have big glass panels on them. >> If you can smash it down, why not up? Are they bringing a ladder as well? >>Who said you wouldn't need to notice? Because then you would know exactly where they are and you could escape m…
"Maybe you're referring to the locks in which case you have a point. But exterior doors in my area tend to have big glass panels on them." Locks, sure. But those don't mean much if you have doors and door frames made of wood and they aren't either extremely heavy or reinforced. "Are they bringing a ladder as well?" A ladder or chair from your own home should work fine. You might be suprised at how often burglars use…
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How about the fact that gaming grew by every metric by orders of magnitude between 80s and now and violent crime dropped by half of more everywhere in the world. If the effect was even 0.01 with growth by 10000% we would have noticed.
I'm not sure that provides the statistical proof it appears to. Assume there were 1,000,000 violent incidents in 1980 and they were all caused by lead in the water. Violent video games caused no violence at a level that would even show up. If today we had 500,000 violent incidents and none of them were caused by lead but all 500k were caused by the prevalence of violent video games. (I'm not trying to say that violen…
I have noticed that many social science articles posted on Hacker News bring out critical comments about study design, doubts about the strength of the study's conclusions, that kind of thing. This submission, on the other hand, is a link to some kind of gaming news website, which links to an abstract for an article in a Cyberpsychology (?) journal which costs $60 to access, and there is widespread and uncritical agr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s... I mean it's hard to say there's "no link" given that the above link is a link.
From that same section of the article.
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I rarely play videogames, but when I do, I usually play FPSs. I think that a small dose of virtual violence could help in discharging your stress/anger.
The Columbine murderers played a bit of FPS, I wish it had reduced their anger.
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How about the fact that gaming grew by every metric by orders of magnitude between 80s and now and violent crime dropped by half of more everywhere in the world. If the effect was even 0.01 with growth by 10000% we would have noticed.
That's actually great evidence! Much better than "I and many of my friends who are currently successful played violent games and we are just fine." The latter is about as convincing as "My grandfather lived to be 90 and he smoked like a chimney."
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> No, bullying cannot be solved by the victims As someone who has punched multiple bullies into the face, I can tell you it does stop it quite efficiently. Two of them basically instantly switched to never again daring to acknowledge that I even exist, for the remaining >5 years of being on the same school. The remainder wasn't smart enough to stop instantly and thus got multiple beatings. There's always the one kid…
> I can tell you it does stop it quite efficiently. Please avoid the patronizing tone. Your experience is not universal. I've personally witnessed victims escalating the conflict into much worse situations.
I'm sorry, I did not mean to sound patronizing, but rather enabling for people in similar situations to be aware of the choices they have.
> I've personally witnessed victims escalating the conflict into much worse situations.
Of course punching someone in the face can always result in them falling in a really bad way and just being dead right away!
My experience comes from a schoolkid age where body weight and muscle strength were still low enough to make that rather unlikely I would guess. Even if something bad had happened, I was still below the ago of criminal responsibility, so while neglecting the emotional and physical consequences for other people, consequences for me would have been a slap on the wrist.